Uplink beam failure recovery

ABSTRACT

A wireless device receives message(s) from a base station. The message(s) comprise configuration parameters of an uplink beam management procedure. The configuration parameters comprise: first parameters of first SRS resources; second parameters of second uplink resources; and a first timer value for a first timer. A first downlink control information (DCI) is received. The first DCI indicates transmission of at least one SRS for the uplink beam management procedure. The at least one SRS is transmitted via at least one of the first SRS resources. In response to the transmitting: the first timer is started based on the first timer value; and a downlink control channel is monitored for a second DCI. At least a second uplink signal is transmitted via at least one of the second uplink resources in response to not detecting the second DCI during the monitoring.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No.62/555,359, filed Sep. 7, 2017, and U.S. Provisional Application No.62/555,366, filed Sep. 7, 2017, and U.S. Provisional Application No.62/564,626, filed Sep. 28, 2017, which are hereby incorporated byreference in its entirety.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS

Examples of several of the various embodiments of the present inventionare described herein with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram depicting example sets of OFDM subcarriers as per anaspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 2 is a diagram depicting an example transmission time and receptiontime for two carriers in a carrier group as per an aspect of anembodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 3 is a diagram depicting OFDM radio resources as per an aspect ofan embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a base station and a wireless device as peran aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 5A, FIG. 5B, FIG. 5C and FIG. 5D are example diagrams for uplinkand downlink signal transmission as per an aspect of an embodiment ofthe present disclosure.

FIG. 6 is an example diagram for a protocol structure withmulti-connectivity as per an aspect of an embodiment of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 7 is an example diagram for a protocol structure with CA and DC asper an aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 8 shows example TAG configurations as per an aspect of anembodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 9 is an example message flow in a random access process in asecondary TAG as per an aspect of an embodiment of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 10A and FIG. 10B are example diagrams for interfaces between a 5Gcore network (e.g. NGC) and base stations (e.g. gNB and eLTE eNB) as peran aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 11A, FIG. 11B, FIG. 11C, FIG. 11D, FIG. 11E, and FIG. 11F areexample diagrams for architectures of tight interworking between 5G RAN(e.g. gNB) and LTE RAN (e.g. (e)LTE eNB) as per an aspect of anembodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 12A, FIG. 12B, and FIG. 12C are example diagrams for radio protocolstructures of tight interworking bearers as per an aspect of anembodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 13A and FIG. 13B are example diagrams for gNB deployment scenariosas per an aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 14 is an example diagram for functional split option examples ofthe centralized gNB deployment scenario as per an aspect of anembodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 15 is an example diagram for synchronization signal blocktransmission as per an aspect of an embodiment of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 16 is an example diagram of random access procedure with multiplebeams as per an aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 17 is an example diagram of channel state information referencesignal transmission as per an aspect of an embodiment of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 18 is an example diagram of channel station information referencesignal transmission as per an aspect of an embodiment of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 19 is an example diagram of downlink beam management procedures asper an aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 20A and FIG. 20B are example diagrams of downlink beam failure inone TRP and in multiple TRPs respectively as per an aspect of anembodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 21 is an example diagram of sounding reference signal transmissionas per an aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 22 is an example diagram of uplink beam management procedures asper an aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 23 is an example diagram of uplink beam failure event as per anaspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 24 is an example diagram of uplink beam failure recovery procedureas per an aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 25 is a flow diagram of an aspect of an embodiment of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 26 is a flow diagram of an aspect of an embodiment of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 27 is a flow diagram of an aspect of an embodiment of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 28 is a flow diagram of an aspect of an embodiment of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 29 is a flow diagram of an aspect of an embodiment of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 30 is a flow diagram of an aspect of an embodiment of the presentdisclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

Example embodiments of the present invention enable operation of carrieraggregation. Embodiments of the technology disclosed herein may beemployed in the technical field of multicarrier communication systems.More particularly, the embodiments of the technology disclosed hereinmay relate to signal timing in a multicarrier communication system.

The following Acronyms are used throughout the present disclosure:

-   ASIC application-specific integrated circuit-   BPSK binary phase shift keying-   CA carrier aggregation-   CSI channel state information-   CDMA code division multiple access-   CSS common search space-   CPLD complex programmable logic devices-   CC component carrier-   CP cyclic prefix-   DL downlink-   DCI downlink control information-   DC dual connectivity-   eMBB enhanced mobile broadband-   EPC evolved packet core-   E-UTRAN evolved-universal terrestrial radio access network-   FPGA field programmable gate arrays-   FDD frequency division multiplexing-   HDL hardware description languages-   HARQ hybrid automatic repeat request-   IE information element-   LTE long term evolution-   MCG master cell group-   MeNB master evolved node B-   MIB master information block-   MAC media access control-   MAC media access control-   MME mobility management entity-   mMTC massive machine type communications-   NAS non-access stratum-   NR new radio-   OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing-   PDCP packet data convergence protocol-   PDU packet data unit-   PHY physical-   PDCCH physical downlink control channel-   PHICH physical HARQ indicator channel-   PUCCH physical uplink control channel-   PUSCH physical uplink shared channel-   PCell primary cell-   PCell primary cell-   PCC primary component carrier-   PSCell primary secondary cell-   pTAG primary timing advance group-   QAM quadrature amplitude modulation-   QPSK quadrature phase shift keying-   RBG resource block groups-   RLC radio link control-   RRC radio resource control-   RA random access-   RB resource blocks-   SCC secondary component carrier-   SCell secondary cell-   SCG secondary cell group-   SeNB secondary evolved node B-   sTAGs secondary timing advance group-   SDU service data unit-   S-GW serving gateway-   SRB signaling radio bearer-   SC-OFDM single carrier-OFDM-   SFN system frame number-   SIB system information block-   TAI tracking area identifier-   TAT time alignment timer-   TDD time division duplexing-   TDMA time division multiple access-   TA timing advance-   TAG timing advance group-   TTI transmission time interval-   TB transport block-   UL uplink-   UE user equipment-   URLLC ultra-reliable low-latency communications-   VHDL VHSIC hardware description language-   CU central unit-   DU distributed unit-   Fs-C Fs-control plane-   Fs-U Fs-user plane-   gNB next generation node B-   NGC next generation core-   NG CP next generation control plane core-   NG-C NG-control plane-   NG-U NG-user plane-   NR new radio-   NR MAC new radio MAC-   NR PHY new radio physical-   NR PDCP new radio PDCP-   NR RLC new radio RLC-   NR RRC new radio RRC-   NSSAI network slice selection assistance information-   PLMN public land mobile network-   UPGW user plane gateway-   Xn-C Xn-control plane-   Xn-U Xn-user plane-   Xx-C Xx-control plane-   Xx-U Xx-user plane

Example embodiments of the invention may be implemented using variousphysical layer modulation and transmission mechanisms. Exampletransmission mechanisms may include, but are not limited to: CDMA, OFDM,TDMA, Wavelet technologies, and/or the like. Hybrid transmissionmechanisms such as TDMA/CDMA, and OFDM/CDMA may also be employed.Various modulation schemes may be applied for signal transmission in thephysical layer. Examples of modulation schemes include, but are notlimited to: phase, amplitude, code, a combination of these, and/or thelike. An example radio transmission method may implement QAM using BPSK,QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM, 256-QAM, 1024-QAM and/or the like. Physical radiotransmission may be enhanced by dynamically or semi-dynamically changingthe modulation and coding scheme depending on transmission requirementsand radio conditions.

FIG. 1 is a diagram depicting example sets of OFDM subcarriers as per anaspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure. As illustrated inthis example, arrow(s) in the diagram may depict a subcarrier in amulticarrier OFDM system. The OFDM system may use technology such asOFDM technology, DFTS-OFDM, SC-OFDM technology, or the like. Forexample, arrow 101 shows a subcarrier transmitting information symbols.FIG. 1 is for illustration purposes, and a typical multicarrier OFDMsystem may include more subcarriers in a carrier. For example, thenumber of subcarriers in a carrier may be in the range of 10 to 10,000subcarriers. FIG. 1 shows two guard bands 106 and 107 in a transmissionband. As illustrated in FIG. 1, guard band 106 is between subcarriers103 and subcarriers 104. The example set of subcarriers A 102 includessubcarriers 103 and subcarriers 104. FIG. 1 also illustrates an exampleset of subcarriers B 105. As illustrated, there is no guard band betweenany two subcarriers in the example set of subcarriers B 105. Carriers ina multicarrier OFDM communication system may be contiguous carriers,non-contiguous carriers, or a combination of both contiguous andnon-contiguous carriers.

FIG. 2 is a diagram depicting an example transmission time and receptiontime for two carriers as per an aspect of an embodiment of the presentdisclosure. A multicarrier OFDM communication system may include one ormore carriers, for example, ranging from 1 to 10 carriers. Carrier A 204and carrier B 205 may have the same or different timing structures.Although FIG. 2 shows two synchronized carriers, carrier A 204 andcarrier B 205 may or may not be synchronized with each other. Differentradio frame structures may be supported for FDD and TDD duplexmechanisms. FIG. 2 shows an example FDD frame timing. Downlink anduplink transmissions may be organized into radio frames 201. In thisexample, radio frame duration is 10 msec. Other frame durations, forexample, in the range of 1 to 100 msec may also be supported. In thisexample, each 10 ms radio frame 201 may be divided into ten equallysized subframes 202. Other subframe durations such as including 0.5msec, 1 msec, 2 msec, and 5 msec may also be supported. Subframe(s) maycomprise of two or more slots (e.g. slots 206 and 207). For the exampleof FDD, 10 subframes may be available for downlink transmission and 10subframes may be available for uplink transmissions in each 10 msinterval. Uplink and downlink transmissions may be separated in thefrequency domain. A slot may be 7 or 14 OFDM symbols for the samesubcarrier spacing of up to 60 kHz with normal CP. A slot may be 14 OFDMsymbols for the same subcarrier spacing higher than 60 kHz with normalCP. A slot may contain all downlink, all uplink, or a downlink part andan uplink part and/or alike. Slot aggregation may be supported, e.g.,data transmission may be scheduled to span one or multiple slots. In anexample, a mini-slot may start at an OFDM symbol in a subframe. Amini-slot may have a duration of one or more OFDM symbols. Slot(s) mayinclude a plurality of OFDM symbols 203. The number of OFDM symbols 203in a slot 206 may depend on the cyclic prefix length and subcarrierspacing.

FIG. 3 is a diagram depicting OFDM radio resources as per an aspect ofan embodiment of the present disclosure. The resource grid structure intime 304 and frequency 305 is illustrated in FIG. 3. The quantity ofdownlink subcarriers or RBs may depend, at least in part, on thedownlink transmission bandwidth 306 configured in the cell. The smallestradio resource unit may be called a resource element (e.g. 301).Resource elements may be grouped into resource blocks (e.g. 302).Resource blocks may be grouped into larger radio resources calledResource Block Groups (RBG) (e.g. 303). The transmitted signal in slot206 may be described by one or several resource grids of a plurality ofsubcarriers and a plurality of OFDM symbols. Resource blocks may be usedto describe the mapping of certain physical channels to resourceelements. Other pre-defined groupings of physical resource elements maybe implemented in the system depending on the radio technology. Forexample, 24 subcarriers may be grouped as a radio block for a durationof 5 msec. In an illustrative example, a resource block may correspondto one slot in the time domain and 180 kHz in the frequency domain (for15 KHz subcarrier bandwidth and 12 subcarriers).

In an example embodiment, multiple numerologies may be supported. In anexample, a numerology may be derived by scaling a basic subcarrierspacing by an integer N. In an example, scalable numerology may allow atleast from 15 kHz to 480 kHz subcarrier spacing. The numerology with 15kHz and scaled numerology with different subcarrier spacing with thesame CP overhead may align at a symbol boundary every 1 ms in a NRcarrier.

FIG. 5A, FIG. 5B, FIG. 5C and FIG. 5D are example diagrams for uplinkand downlink signal transmission as per an aspect of an embodiment ofthe present disclosure. FIG. 5A shows an example uplink physicalchannel. The baseband signal representing the physical uplink sharedchannel may perform the following processes. These functions areillustrated as examples and it is anticipated that other mechanisms maybe implemented in various embodiments. The functions may comprisescrambling, modulation of scrambled bits to generate complex-valuedsymbols, mapping of the complex-valued modulation symbols onto one orseveral transmission layers, transform precoding to generatecomplex-valued symbols, precoding of the complex-valued symbols, mappingof precoded complex-valued symbols to resource elements, generation ofcomplex-valued time-domain DFTS-OFDM/SC-FDMA signal for an antenna port,and/or the like.

Example modulation and up-conversion to the carrier frequency of thecomplex-valued DFTS-OFDM/SC-FDMA baseband signal for an antenna portand/or the complex-valued PRACH baseband signal is shown in FIG. 5B.Filtering may be employed prior to transmission.

An example structure for Downlink Transmissions is shown in FIG. 5C. Thebaseband signal representing a downlink physical channel may perform thefollowing processes. These functions are illustrated as examples and itis anticipated that other mechanisms may be implemented in variousembodiments. The functions include scrambling of coded bits in codewordsto be transmitted on a physical channel; modulation of scrambled bits togenerate complex-valued modulation symbols; mapping of thecomplex-valued modulation symbols onto one or several transmissionlayers; precoding of the complex-valued modulation symbols on a layerfor transmission on the antenna ports; mapping of complex-valuedmodulation symbols for an antenna port to resource elements; generationof complex-valued time-domain OFDM signal for an antenna port, and/orthe like.

Example modulation and up-conversion to the carrier frequency of thecomplex-valued OFDM baseband signal for an antenna port is shown in FIG.5D. Filtering may be employed prior to transmission.

FIG. 4 is an example block diagram of a base station 401 and a wirelessdevice 406, as per an aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure.A communication network 400 may include at least one base station 401and at least one wireless device 406. The base station 401 may includeat least one communication interface 402, at least one processor 403,and at least one set of program code instructions 405 stored innon-transitory memory 404 and executable by the at least one processor403. The wireless device 406 may include at least one communicationinterface 407, at least one processor 408, and at least one set ofprogram code instructions 410 stored in non-transitory memory 409 andexecutable by the at least one processor 408. Communication interface402 in base station 401 may be configured to engage in communicationwith communication interface 407 in wireless device 406 via acommunication path that includes at least one wireless link 411.Wireless link 411 may be a bi-directional link. Communication interface407 in wireless device 406 may also be configured to engage in acommunication with communication interface 402 in base station 401. Basestation 401 and wireless device 406 may be configured to send andreceive data over wireless link 411 using multiple frequency carriers.According to some of the various aspects of embodiments, transceiver(s)may be employed. A transceiver is a device that includes both atransmitter and receiver. Transceivers may be employed in devices suchas wireless devices, base stations, relay nodes, and/or the like.Example embodiments for radio technology implemented in communicationinterface 402, 407 and wireless link 411 are illustrated are FIG. 1,FIG. 2, FIG. 3, FIG. 5, and associated text.

An interface may be a hardware interface, a firmware interface, asoftware interface, and/or a combination thereof. The hardware interfacemay include connectors, wires, electronic devices such as drivers,amplifiers, and/or the like. A software interface may include codestored in a memory device to implement protocol(s), protocol layers,communication drivers, device drivers, combinations thereof, and/or thelike. A firmware interface may include a combination of embeddedhardware and code stored in and/or in communication with a memory deviceto implement connections, electronic device operations, protocol(s),protocol layers, communication drivers, device drivers, hardwareoperations, combinations thereof, and/or the like.

The term configured may relate to the capacity of a device whether thedevice is in an operational or non-operational state. Configured mayalso refer to specific settings in a device that effect the operationalcharacteristics of the device whether the device is in an operational ornon-operational state. In other words, the hardware, software, firmware,registers, memory values, and/or the like may be “configured” within adevice, whether the device is in an operational or nonoperational state,to provide the device with specific characteristics. Terms such as “acontrol message to cause in a device” may mean that a control messagehas parameters that may be used to configure specific characteristics inthe device, whether the device is in an operational or non-operationalstate.

According to some of the various aspects of embodiments, a 5G networkmay include a multitude of base stations, providing a user plane NRPDCP/NR RLC/NR MAC/NR PHY and control plane (NR RRC) protocolterminations towards the wireless device. The base station(s) may beinterconnected with other base station(s) (e.g. employing an Xninterface). The base stations may also be connected employing, forexample, an NG interface to an NGC. FIG. 10A and FIG. 10B are examplediagrams for interfaces between a 5G core network (e.g. NGC) and basestations (e.g. gNB and eLTE eNB) as per an aspect of an embodiment ofthe present disclosure. For example, the base stations may beinterconnected to the NGC control plane (e.g. NG CP) employing the NG-Cinterface and to the NGC user plane (e.g. UPGW) employing the NG-Uinterface. The NG interface may support a many-to-many relation between5G core networks and base stations.

A base station may include many sectors for example: 1, 2, 3, 4, or 6sectors. A base station may include many cells, for example, rangingfrom 1 to 50 cells or more. A cell may be categorized, for example, as aprimary cell or secondary cell. At RRC connectionestablishment/re-establishment/handover, one serving cell may providethe NAS (non-access stratum) mobility information (e.g. TAI), and at RRCconnection re-establishment/handover, one serving cell may provide thesecurity input. This cell may be referred to as the Primary Cell(PCell). In the downlink, the carrier corresponding to the PCell may bethe Downlink Primary Component Carrier (DL PCC), while in the uplink, itmay be the Uplink Primary Component Carrier (UL PCC). Depending onwireless device capabilities, Secondary Cells (SCells) may be configuredto form together with the PCell a set of serving cells. In the downlink,the carrier corresponding to an SCell may be a Downlink SecondaryComponent Carrier (DL SCC), while in the uplink, it may be an UplinkSecondary Component Carrier (UL SCC). An SCell may or may not have anuplink carrier.

A cell, comprising a downlink carrier and optionally an uplink carrier,may be assigned a physical cell ID and a cell index. A carrier (downlinkor uplink) may belong to only one cell. The cell ID or Cell index mayalso identify the downlink carrier or uplink carrier of the cell(depending on the context it is used). In the specification, cell ID maybe equally referred to a carrier ID, and cell index may be referred tocarrier index. In implementation, the physical cell ID or cell index maybe assigned to a cell. A cell ID may be determined using asynchronization signal transmitted on a downlink carrier. A cell indexmay be determined using RRC messages. For example, when thespecification refers to a first physical cell ID for a first downlinkcarrier, the specification may mean the first physical cell ID is for acell comprising the first downlink carrier. The same concept may applyto, for example, carrier activation. When the specification indicatesthat a first carrier is activated, the specification may equally meanthat the cell comprising the first carrier is activated.

Embodiments may be configured to operate as needed. The disclosedmechanism may be performed when certain criteria are met, for example,in a wireless device, a base station, a radio environment, a network, acombination of the above, and/or the like. Example criteria may bebased, at least in part, on for example, traffic load, initial systemset up, packet sizes, traffic characteristics, a combination of theabove, and/or the like. When the one or more criteria are met, variousexample embodiments may be applied. Therefore, it may be possible toimplement example embodiments that selectively implement disclosedprotocols.

A base station may communicate with a mix of wireless devices. Wirelessdevices may support multiple technologies, and/or multiple releases ofthe same technology. Wireless devices may have some specificcapability(ies) depending on its wireless device category and/orcapability(ies). A base station may comprise multiple sectors. When thisdisclosure refers to a base station communicating with a plurality ofwireless devices, this disclosure may refer to a subset of the totalwireless devices in a coverage area. This disclosure may refer to, forexample, a plurality of wireless devices of a given LTE or 5G releasewith a given capability and in a given sector of the base station. Theplurality of wireless devices in this disclosure may refer to a selectedplurality of wireless devices, and/or a subset of total wireless devicesin a coverage area which perform according to disclosed methods, and/orthe like. There may be a plurality of wireless devices in a coveragearea that may not comply with the disclosed methods, for example,because those wireless devices perform based on older releases of LTE or5G technology.

FIG. 6 and FIG. 7 are example diagrams for protocol structure with CAand multi-connectivity as per an aspect of an embodiment of the presentdisclosure. NR may support multi-connectivity operation whereby amultiple RX/TX UE in RRC_CONNECTED may be configured to utilize radioresources provided by multiple schedulers located in multiple gNBsconnected via a non-ideal or ideal backhaul over the Xn interface. gNBsinvolved in multi-connectivity for a certain UE may assume two differentroles: a gNB may either act as a master gNB or as a secondary gNB. Inmulti-connectivity, a UE may be connected to one master gNB and one ormore secondary gNBs. FIG. 7 illustrates one example structure for the UEside MAC entities when a Master Cell Group (MCG) and a Secondary CellGroup (SCG) are configured, and it may not restrict implementation.Media Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) reception is not shown in thisfigure for simplicity.

In multi-connectivity, the radio protocol architecture that a particularbearer uses may depend on how the bearer is setup. Three examples ofbearers, including, an MCG bearer, an SCG bearer and a split bearer asshown in FIG. 6. NR RRC may be located in master gNB and SRBs may beconfigured as a MCG bearer type and may use the radio resources of themaster gNB. Multi-connectivity may also be described as having at leastone bearer configured to use radio resources provided by the secondarygNB. Multi-connectivity may or may not be configured/implemented inexample embodiments of the disclosure.

In the case of multi-connectivity, the UE may be configured withmultiple NR MAC entities: one NR MAC entity for master gNB, and other NRMAC entities for secondary gNBs. In multi-connectivity, the configuredset of serving cells for a UE may comprise of two subsets: the MasterCell Group (MCG) containing the serving cells of the master gNB, and theSecondary Cell Groups (SCGs) containing the serving cells of thesecondary gNBs. For a SCG, one or more of the following may be applied:at least one cell in the SCG has a configured UL CC and one of them,named PSCell (or PCell of SCG, or sometimes called PCell), is configuredwith PUCCH resources; when the SCG is configured, there may be at leastone SCG bearer or one Split bearer; upon detection of a physical layerproblem or a random access problem on a PSCell, or the maximum number ofNR RLC retransmissions has been reached associated with the SCG, or upondetection of an access problem on a PSCell during a SCG addition or aSCG change: a RRC connection re-establishment procedure may not betriggered, UL transmissions towards cells of the SCG are stopped, amaster gNB may be informed by the UE of a SCG failure type, for splitbearer, the DL data transfer over the master gNB is maintained; the NRRLC AM bearer may be configured for the split bearer; like PCell, PSCellmay not be de-activated; PSCell may be changed with a SCG change (e.g.with security key change and a RACH procedure); and/or a direct bearertype change between a Split bearer and a SCG bearer or simultaneousconfiguration of a SCG and a Split bearer may or may not supported.

With respect to the interaction between a master gNB and secondary gNBsfor multi-connectivity, one or more of the following principles may beapplied: the master gNB may maintain the RRM measurement configurationof the UE and may, (e.g, based on received measurement reports ortraffic conditions or bearer types), decide to ask a secondary gNB toprovide additional resources (serving cells) for a UE; upon receiving arequest from the master gNB, a secondary gNB may create a container thatmay result in the configuration of additional serving cells for the UE(or decide that it has no resource available to do so); for UEcapability coordination, the master gNB may provide (part of) the ASconfiguration and the UE capabilities to the secondary gNB; the mastergNB and the secondary gNB may exchange information about a UEconfiguration by employing of NR RRC containers (inter-node messages)carried in Xn messages; the secondary gNB may initiate a reconfigurationof its existing serving cells (e.g., PUCCH towards the secondary gNB);the secondary gNB may decide which cell is the PSCell within the SCG;the master gNB may or may not change the content of the NR RRCconfiguration provided by the secondary gNB; in the case of a SCGaddition and a SCG SCell addition, the master gNB may provide the latestmeasurement results for the SCG cell(s); both a master gNB and secondarygNBs may know the SFN and subframe offset of each other by OAM, (e.g.,for the purpose of DRX alignment and identification of a measurementgap). In an example, when adding a new SCG SCell, dedicated NR RRCsignaling may be used for sending required system information of thecell as for CA, except for the SFN acquired from a MIB of the PSCell ofa SCG.

In an example, serving cells may be grouped in a TA group (TAG). Servingcells in one TAG may use the same timing reference. For a given TAG,user equipment (UE) may use at least one downlink carrier as a timingreference. For a given TAG, a UE may synchronize uplink subframe andframe transmission timing of uplink carriers belonging to the same TAG.In an example, serving cells having an uplink to which the same TAapplies may correspond to serving cells hosted by the same receiver. AUE supporting multiple TAs may support two or more TA groups. One TAgroup may contain the PCell and may be called a primary TAG (pTAG). In amultiple TAG configuration, at least one TA group may not contain thePCell and may be called a secondary TAG (sTAG). In an example, carrierswithin the same TA group may use the same TA value and/or the sametiming reference. When DC is configured, cells belonging to a cell group(MCG or SCG) may be grouped into multiple TAGs including a pTAG and oneor more sTAGs.

FIG. 8 shows example TAG configurations as per an aspect of anembodiment of the present disclosure. In Example 1, pTAG comprisesPCell, and an sTAG comprises SCell1. In Example 2, a pTAG comprises aPCell and SCell1, and an sTAG comprises SCell2 and SCell3. In Example 3,pTAG comprises PCell and SCell1, and an sTAG1 includes SCell2 andSCell3, and sTAG2 comprises SCell4. Up to four TAGs may be supported ina cell group (MCG or SCG) and other example TAG configurations may alsobe provided. In various examples in this disclosure, example mechanismsare described for a pTAG and an sTAG. Some of the example mechanisms maybe applied to configurations with multiple sTAGs.

In an example, an eNB may initiate an RA procedure via a PDCCH order foran activated SCell. This PDCCH order may be sent on a scheduling cell ofthis SCell. When cross carrier scheduling is configured for a cell, thescheduling cell may be different than the cell that is employed forpreamble transmission, and the PDCCH order may include an SCell index.At least a non-contention based RA procedure may be supported forSCell(s) assigned to sTAG(s).

FIG. 9 is an example message flow in a random access process in asecondary TAG as per an aspect of an embodiment of the presentdisclosure. An eNB transmits an activation command 900 to activate anSCell. A preamble 902 (Msg1) may be sent by a UE in response to a PDCCHorder 901 on an SCell belonging to an sTAG. In an example embodiment,preamble transmission for SCells may be controlled by the network usingPDCCH format 1A. Msg2 message 903 (RAR: random access response) inresponse to the preamble transmission on the SCell may be addressed toRA-RNTI in a PCell common search space (CSS). Uplink packets 904 may betransmitted on the SCell in which the preamble was transmitted.

According to some of the various aspects of embodiments, initial timingalignment may be achieved through a random access procedure. This mayinvolve a UE transmitting a random access preamble and an eNB respondingwith an initial TA command NTA (amount of timing advance) within arandom access response window. The start of the random access preamblemay be aligned with the start of a corresponding uplink subframe at theUE assuming NTA=0. The eNB may estimate the uplink timing from therandom access preamble transmitted by the UE. The TA command may bederived by the eNB based on the estimation of the difference between thedesired UL timing and the actual UL timing. The UE may determine theinitial uplink transmission timing relative to the correspondingdownlink of the sTAG on which the preamble is transmitted.

The mapping of a serving cell to a TAG may be configured by a servingeNB with RRC signaling. The mechanism for TAG configuration andreconfiguration may be based on RRC signaling. According to some of thevarious aspects of embodiments, when an eNB performs an SCell additionconfiguration, the related TAG configuration may be configured for theSCell. In an example embodiment, an eNB may modify the TAG configurationof an SCell by removing (releasing) the SCell and adding(configuring) anew SCell (with the same physical cell ID and frequency) with an updatedTAG ID. The new SCell with the updated TAG ID may initially be inactivesubsequent to being assigned the updated TAG ID. The eNB may activatethe updated new SCell and start scheduling packets on the activatedSCell. In an example implementation, it may not be possible to changethe TAG associated with an SCell, but rather, the SCell may need to beremoved and a new SCell may need to be added with another TAG. Forexample, if there is a need to move an SCell from an sTAG to a pTAG, atleast one RRC message, for example, at least one RRC reconfigurationmessage, may be send to the UE to reconfigure TAG configurations byreleasing the SCell and then configuring the SCell as a part of the pTAG(when an SCell is added/configured without a TAG index, the SCell may beexplicitly assigned to the pTAG). The PCell may not change its TA groupand may be a member of the pTAG.

The purpose of an RRC connection reconfiguration procedure may be tomodify an RRC connection, (e.g. to establish, modify and/or release RBs,to perform handover, to setup, modify, and/or release measurements, toadd, modify, and/or release SCells). If the received RRC ConnectionReconfiguration message includes the sCellToReleaseList, the UE mayperform an SCell release. If the received RRC Connection Reconfigurationmessage includes the sCellToAddModList, the UE may perform SCelladditions or modification.

In LTE Release-10 and Release-11 CA, a PUCCH is only transmitted on thePCell (PSCell) to an eNB. In LTE-Release 12 and earlier, a UE maytransmit PUCCH information on one cell (PCell or PSCell) to a given eNB.

As the number of CA capable UEs and also the number of aggregatedcarriers increase, the number of PUCCHs and also the PUCCH payload sizemay increase. Accommodating the PUCCH transmissions on the PCell maylead to a high PUCCH load on the PCell. A PUCCH on an SCell may beintroduced to offload the PUCCH resource from the PCell. More than onePUCCH may be configured for example, a PUCCH on a PCell and anotherPUCCH on an SCell. In the example embodiments, one, two or more cellsmay be configured with PUCCH resources for transmitting CSI/ACK/NACK toa base station. Cells may be grouped into multiple PUCCH groups, and oneor more cell within a group may be configured with a PUCCH. In anexample configuration, one SCell may belong to one PUCCH group. SCellswith a configured PUCCH transmitted to a base station may be called aPUCCH SCell, and a cell group with a common PUCCH resource transmittedto the same base station may be called a PUCCH group.

In an example embodiment, a MAC entity may have a configurable timertimeAlignmentTimer per TAG. The timeAlignmentTimer may be used tocontrol how long the MAC entity considers the Serving Cells belonging tothe associated TAG to be uplink time aligned. The MAC entity may, when aTiming Advance Command MAC control element is received, apply the TimingAdvance Command for the indicated TAG; start or restart thetimeAlignmentTimer associated with the indicated TAG. The MAC entitymay, when a Timing Advance Command is received in a Random AccessResponse message for a serving cell belonging to a TAG and/or if theRandom Access Preamble was not selected by the MAC entity, apply theTiming Advance Command for this TAG and start or restart thetimeAlignmentTimer associated with this TAG. Otherwise, if thetimeAlignmentTimer associated with this TAG is not running, the TimingAdvance Command for this TAG may be applied and the timeAlignmentTimerassociated with this TAG started. When the contention resolution isconsidered not successful, a timeAlignmentTimer associated with this TAGmay be stopped. Otherwise, the MAC entity may ignore the received TimingAdvance Command.

In example embodiments, a timer is running once it is started, until itis stopped or until it expires; otherwise it may not be running. A timercan be started if it is not running or restarted if it is running. Forexample, a timer may be started or restarted from its initial value.

Example embodiments of the disclosure may enable operation ofmulti-carrier communications. Other example embodiments may comprise anon-transitory tangible computer readable media comprising instructionsexecutable by one or more processors to cause operation of multi-carriercommunications. Yet other example embodiments may comprise an article ofmanufacture that comprises a non-transitory tangible computer readablemachine-accessible medium having instructions encoded thereon forenabling programmable hardware to cause a device (e.g. wirelesscommunicator, UE, base station, etc.) to enable operation ofmulti-carrier communications. The device may include processors, memory,interfaces, and/or the like. Other example embodiments may comprisecommunication networks comprising devices such as base stations,wireless devices (or user equipment: UE), servers, switches, antennas,and/or the like.

FIG. 11A, FIG. 11B, FIG. 11C, FIG. 11D, FIG. 11E, and FIG. 11F areexample diagrams for architectures of tight interworking between 5G RANand LTE RAN as per an aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure.The tight interworking may enable a multiple RX/TX UE in RRC_CONNECTEDto be configured to utilize radio resources provided by two schedulerslocated in two base stations (e.g. (e)LTE eNB and gNB) connected via anon-ideal or ideal backhaul over the Xx interface between LTE eNB andgNB or the Xn interface between eLTE eNB and gNB. Base stations involvedin tight interworking for a certain UE may assume two different roles: abase station may either act as a master base station or as a secondarybase station. In tight interworking, a UE may be connected to one masterbase station and one secondary base station. Mechanisms implemented intight interworking may be extended to cover more than two base stations.

In FIG. 11A and FIG. 11B, a master base station may be an LTE eNB, whichmay be connected to EPC nodes (e.g. to an MME via the S1-C interface andto an S-GW via the S1-U interface), and a secondary base station may bea gNB, which may be a non-standalone node having a control planeconnection via an Xx-C interface to an LTE eNB. In the tightinterworking architecture of FIG. 11A, a user plane for a gNB may beconnected to an S-GW through an LTE eNB via an Xx-U interface betweenLTE eNB and gNB and an S1-U interface between LTE eNB and S-GW. In thearchitecture of FIG. 11B, a user plane for a gNB may be connecteddirectly to an S-GW via an S1-U interface between gNB and S-GW.

In FIG. 11C and FIG. 11D, a master base station may be a gNB, which maybe connected to NGC nodes (e.g. to a control plane core node via theNG-C interface and to a user plane core node via the NG-U interface),and a secondary base station may be an eLTE eNB, which may be anon-standalone node having a control plane connection via an Xn-Cinterface to a gNB. In the tight interworking architecture of FIG. 11C,a user plane for an eLTE eNB may be connected to a user plane core nodethrough a gNB via an Xn-U interface between eLTE eNB and gNB and an NG-Uinterface between gNB and user plane core node. In the architecture ofFIG. 11D, a user plane for an eLTE eNB may be connected directly to auser plane core node via an NG-U interface between eLTE eNB and userplane core node.

In FIG. 11E and FIG. 11F, a master base station may be an eLTE eNB,which may be connected to NGC nodes (e.g. to a control plane core nodevia the NG-C interface and to a user plane core node via the NG-Uinterface), and a secondary base station may be a gNB, which may be anon-standalone node having a control plane connection via an Xn-Cinterface to an eLTE eNB. In the tight interworking architecture of FIG.11E, a user plane for a gNB may be connected to a user plane core nodethrough an eLTE eNB via an Xn-U interface between eLTE eNB and gNB andan NG-U interface between eLTE eNB and user plane core node. In thearchitecture of FIG. 11F, a user plane for a gNB may be connecteddirectly to a user plane core node via an NG-U interface between gNB anduser plane core node.

FIG. 12A, FIG. 12B, and FIG. 12C are example diagrams for radio protocolstructures of tight interworking bearers as per an aspect of anembodiment of the present disclosure. In FIG. 12A, an LTE eNB may be amaster base station, and a gNB may be a secondary base station. In FIG.12B, a gNB may be a master base station, and an eLTE eNB may be asecondary base station. In FIG. 12C, an eLTE eNB may be a master basestation, and a gNB may be a secondary base station. In 5G network, theradio protocol architecture that a particular bearer uses may depend onhow the bearer is setup. Three example bearers including an MCG bearer,an SCG bearer, and a split bearer as shown in FIG. 12A, FIG. 12B, andFIG. 12C. NR RRC may be located in master base station, and SRBs may beconfigured as an MCG bearer type and may use the radio resources of themaster base station. Tight interworking may also be described as havingat least one bearer configured to use radio resources provided by thesecondary base station. Tight interworking may or may not beconfigured/implemented in example embodiments of the disclosure.

In the case of tight interworking, the UE may be configured with two MACentities: one MAC entity for master base station, and one MAC entity forsecondary base station. In tight interworking, the configured set ofserving cells for a UE may comprise of two subsets: the Master CellGroup (MCG) containing the serving cells of the master base station, andthe Secondary Cell Group (SCG) containing the serving cells of thesecondary base station. For a SCG, one or more of the following may beapplied: at least one cell in the SCG has a configured UL CC and one ofthem, named PSCell (or PCell of SCG, or sometimes called PCell), isconfigured with PUCCH resources; when the SCG is configured, there maybe at least one SCG bearer or one split bearer; upon detection of aphysical layer problem or a random access problem on a PSCell, or themaximum number of (NR) RLC retransmissions has been reached associatedwith the SCG, or upon detection of an access problem on a PSCell duringa SCG addition or a SCG change: a RRC connection re-establishmentprocedure may not be triggered, UL transmissions towards cells of theSCG are stopped, a master base station may be informed by the UE of aSCG failure type, for split bearer, the DL data transfer over the masterbase station is maintained; the RLC AM bearer may be configured for thesplit bearer; like PCell, PSCell may not be de-activated; PSCell may bechanged with a SCG change (e.g. with security key change and a RACHprocedure); and/or neither a direct bearer type change between a Splitbearer and a SCG bearer nor simultaneous configuration of a SCG and aSplit bearer are supported.

With respect to the interaction between a master base station and asecondary base station, one or more of the following principles may beapplied: the master base station may maintain the RRM measurementconfiguration of the UE and may, (e.g, based on received measurementreports, traffic conditions, or bearer types), decide to ask a secondarybase station to provide additional resources (serving cells) for a UE;upon receiving a request from the master base station, a secondary basestation may create a container that may result in the configuration ofadditional serving cells for the UE (or decide that it has no resourceavailable to do so); for UE capability coordination, the master basestation may provide (part of) the AS configuration and the UEcapabilities to the secondary base station; the master base station andthe secondary base station may exchange information about a UEconfiguration by employing of RRC containers (inter-node messages)carried in Xn or Xx messages; the secondary base station may initiate areconfiguration of its existing serving cells (e.g., PUCCH towards thesecondary base station); the secondary base station may decide whichcell is the PSCell within the SCG; the master base station may notchange the content of the RRC configuration provided by the secondarybase station; in the case of a SCG addition and a SCG SCell addition,the master base station may provide the latest measurement results forthe SCG cell(s); both a master base station and a secondary base stationmay know the SFN and subframe offset of each other by OAM, (e.g., forthe purpose of DRX alignment and identification of a measurement gap).In an example, when adding a new SCG SCell, dedicated RRC signaling maybe used for sending required system information of the cell as for CA,except for the SFN acquired from a MIB of the PSCell of a SCG.

FIG. 13A and FIG. 13B are example diagrams for gNB deployment scenariosas per an aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure. In thenon-centralized deployment scenario in FIG. 13A, the full protocol stack(e.g. NR RRC, NR PDCP, NR RLC, NR MAC, and NR PHY) may be supported atone node. In the centralized deployment scenario in FIG. 13B, upperlayers of gNB may be located in a Central Unit (CU), and lower layers ofgNB may be located in Distributed Units (DU). The CU-DU interface (e.g.Fs interface) connecting CU and DU may be ideal or non-ideal. Fs-C mayprovide a control plane connection over Fs interface, and Fs-U mayprovide a user plane connection over Fs interface. In the centralizeddeployment, different functional split options between CU and DUs may bepossible by locating different protocol layers (RAN functions) in CU andDU. The functional split may support flexibility to move RAN functionsbetween CU and DU depending on service requirements and/or networkenvironments. The functional split option may change during operationafter Fs interface setup procedure, or may change only in Fs setupprocedure (i.e. static during operation after Fs setup procedure).

FIG. 14 is an example diagram for different functional split optionexamples of the centralized gNB deployment scenario as per an aspect ofan embodiment of the present disclosure. In the split option example 1,an NR RRC may be in CU, and NR PDCP, NR RLC, NR MAC, NR PHY, and RF maybe in DU. In the split option example 2, an NR RRC and NR PDCP may be inCU, and NR RLC, NR MAC, NR PHY, and RF may be in DU. In the split optionexample 3, an NR RRC, NR PDCP, and partial function of NR RLC may be inCU, and the other partial function of NR RLC, NR MAC, NR PHY, and RF maybe in DU. In the split option example 4, an NR RRC, NR PDCP, and NR RLCmay be in CU, and NR MAC, NR PHY, and RF may be in DU. In the splitoption example 5, an NR RRC, NR PDCP, NR RLC, and partial function of NRMAC may be in CU, and the other partial function of NR MAC, NR PHY, andRF may be in DU. In the split option example 6, an NR RRC, NR PDCP, NRRLC, and NR MAC may be in CU, and NR PHY and RF may be in DU. In thesplit option example 7, an NR RRC, NR PDCP, NR RLC, NR MAC, and partialfunction of NR PHY may be in CU, and the other partial function of NRPHY and RF may be in DU. In the split option example 8, an NR RRC, NRPDCP, NR RLC, NR MAC, and NR PHY may be in CU, and RF may be in DU.

The functional split may be configured per CU, per DU, per UE, perbearer, per slice, or with other granularities. In per CU split, a CUmay have a fixed split, and DUs may be configured to match the splitoption of CU. In per DU split, a DU may be configured with a differentsplit, and a CU may provide different split options for different DUs.In per UE split, a gNB (CU and DU) may provide different split optionsfor different UEs. In per bearer split, different split options may beutilized for different bearer types. In per slice splice, differentsplit options may be applied for different slices.

In an example embodiment, the new radio access network (new RAN) maysupport different network slices, which may allow differentiatedtreatment customized to support different service requirements with endto end scope. The new RAN may provide a differentiated handling oftraffic for different network slices that may be pre-configured, and mayallow a single RAN node to support multiple slices. The new RAN maysupport selection of a RAN part for a given network slice, by one ormore slice ID(s) or NSSAI(s) provided by a UE or a NGC (e.g. NG CP). Theslice ID(s) or NSSAI(s) may identify one or more of pre-configurednetwork slices in a PLMN. For initial attach, a UE may provide a sliceID and/or an NSSAI, and a RAN node (e.g. gNB) may use the slice ID orthe NSSAI for routing an initial NAS signaling to an NGC control planefunction (e.g. NG CP). If a UE does not provide any slice ID or NSSAI, aRAN node may send a NAS signaling to a default NGC control planefunction. For subsequent accesses, the UE may provide a temporary ID fora slice identification, which may be assigned by the NGC control planefunction, to enable a RAN node to route the NAS message to a relevantNGC control plane function. The new RAN may support resource isolationbetween slices. The RAN resource isolation may be achieved by avoidingthat shortage of shared resources in one slice breaks a service levelagreement for another slice.

A New Radio (NR) system may support both single beam and multi-beamoperations. In a multi-beam system, a base station (e.g., gNB) mayperform a downlink beam sweeping to provide coverage for downlinkSynchronization Signals (SSs) and common control channels. A UserEquipment (UE) may perform an uplink beam sweeping for uplink directionto access a cell. In a single beam scenario, a gNB may configuretime-repetition transmission for one SS block, which may comprise atleast Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS), Secondary SynchronizationSignal (SSS), and Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH), with a wide beam.In a multi-beam scenario, a gNB may configure at least some of thesesignals and physical channels in multiple beams. A UE may identify atleast OFDM symbol index, slot index in a radio frame and radio framenumber from an SS block.

In an example, in an RRC_INACTIVE state or RRC_IDLE state, a UE mayassume that SS blocks form an SS burst, and an SS burst set. An SS burstset may have a given periodicity. In multi-beam scenarios, SS blocks maybe transmitted in multiple beams, together forming an SS burst. One ormore SS blocks may be transmitted on one beam. A beam has a steeringdirection. If multiple SS bursts are transmitted with beams, these SSbursts together may form an SS burst set as shown in FIG. 15. A basestation 1501 (e.g., a gNB in NR) may transmit SS bursts 1502A to 1502Hduring time periods 1503. A plurality of these SS bursts may comprise anSS burst set, such as an SS burst set 1504 (e.g., SS bursts 1502A and1502E). An SS burst set may comprise any number of a plurality of SSbursts 1502A to 1502H. Each SS burst within an SS burst set maytransmitted at a fixed or variable periodicity during time periods 1503.

An SS may be based on Cyclic Prefix-Orthogonal Frequency DivisionMultiplexing (CP-OFDM). The SS may comprise at least two types ofsynchronization signals; NR-PSS (Primary synchronization signal) andNR-SSS (Secondary synchronization signal). NR-PSS may be defined atleast for initial symbol boundary synchronization to the NR cell. NR-SSSmay be defined for detection of NR cell ID or at least part of NR cellID. NR-SSS detection may be based on the fixed time/frequencyrelationship with NR-PSS resource position irrespective of duplex modeand beam operation type at least within a given frequency range and CPoverhead. Normal CP may be supported for NR-PSS and NR-SSS.

The NR may comprise at least one physical broadcast channel (NR-PBCH).When a gNB transmit (or broadcast) the NR-PBCH, a UE may decode theNR-PBCH based on the fixed relationship with NR-PSS and/or NR-SSSresource position irrespective of duplex mode and beam operation type atleast within a given frequency range and CP overhead. NR-PBCH may be anon-scheduled broadcast channel carrying at least a part of minimumsystem information with fixed payload size and periodicity predefined inthe specification depending on carrier frequency range.

In single beam and multi-beam scenarios, NR may comprise an SS blockthat may support time (frequency, and/or spatial) division multiplexingof NR-PSS, NR-SSS, and NR-PBCH. A gNB may transmit NR-PSS, NR-SSS and/orNR-PBCH within an SS block. For a given frequency band, an SS block maycorrespond to N OFDM symbols based on the default subcarrier spacing,and N may be a constant. The signal multiplexing structure may be fixedin NR. A wireless device may identify, e.g., from an SS block, an OFDMsymbol index, a slot index in a radio frame, and a radio frame numberfrom an SS block.

A NR may support an SS burst comprising one or more SS blocks. An SSburst set may comprise one or more SS bursts. For example, a number ofSS bursts within a SS burst set may be finite. From physical layerspecification perspective, NR may support at least one periodicity of SSburst set. From UE perspective, SS burst set transmission may beperiodic, and UE may assume that a given SS block is repeated with an SSburst set periodicity.

Within an SS burst set periodicity, NR-PBCH repeated in one or more SSblocks may change. A set of possible SS block time locations may bespecified per frequency band in an RRC message. The maximum number ofSS-blocks within SS burst set may be carrier frequency dependent. Theposition(s) of actual transmitted SS-blocks may be informed at least forhelping CONNECTED/IDLE mode measurement, for helping CONNECTED mode UEto receive downlink (DL) data/control in one or more SS-blocks, or forhelping IDLE mode UE to receive DL data/control in one or moreSS-blocks. A UE may not assume that the gNB transmits the same number ofphysical beam(s). A UE may not assume the same physical beam(s) acrossdifferent SS-blocks within an SS burst set. For an initial cellselection, UE may assume default SS burst set periodicity which may bebroadcast via an RRC message and frequency band-dependent. At least formulti-beams operation case, the time index of SS-block may be indicatedto the UE.

For CONNECTED and IDLE mode UEs, NR may support network indication of SSburst set periodicity and information to derive measurementtiming/duration (e.g., time window for NR-SS detection). A gNB mayprovide (e.g., via broadcasting an RRC message) one SS burst setperiodicity information per frequency carrier to UE and information toderive measurement timing/duration if possible. In case that one SSburst set periodicity and one information regarding timing/duration areindicated, a UE may assume the periodicity and timing/duration for allcells on the same carrier. If a gNB does not provide indication of SSburst set periodicity and information to derive measurementtiming/duration, a UE may assume a predefined periodicity, e.g., 5 ms,as the SS burst set periodicity. NR may support set of SS burst setperiodicity values for adaptation and network indication.

For initial access, a UE may assume a signal corresponding to a specificsubcarrier spacing of NR-PSS/SSS in a given frequency band given by a NRspecification. For NR-PSS, a Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence may be employed asa sequence for NR-PSS. NR may define at least one basic sequence lengthfor a SS in case of sequence-based SS design. The number of antenna portof NR-PSS may be 1. For NR-PBCH transmission, NR may support a fixednumber of antenna port(s). A UE may not be required for a blinddetection of NR-PBCH transmission scheme or number of antenna ports. AUE may assume the same PBCH numerology as that of NR-SS. For the minimumsystem information delivery, NR-PBCH may comprise a part of minimumsystem information. NR-PBCH contents may comprise at least a part of theSFN (system frame number) or CRC. A gNB may transmit the remainingminimum system information in shared downlink channel via NR-PDSCH.

In a multi-beam example, one or more of PSS, SSS, or PBCH signals may berepeated for a cell, e.g., to support cell selection, cell reselection,and/or initial access procedures. For an SS burst, an associated PBCH ora physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduling system informationmay be broadcasted by a base station to multiple wireless devices. ThePDSCH may be indicated by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) ina common search space. The system information may comprise a physicalrandom access channel (PRACH) configuration for a beam. For a beam, abase station (e.g., a gNB in NR) may have a RACH configuration which mayinclude a PRACH preamble pool, time and/or frequency radio resources,and other power related parameters. A wireless device may use a PRACHpreamble from a RACH configuration to initiate a contention-based RACHprocedure or a contention-free RACH procedure. A wireless device mayperform a 4-step RACH procedure, which may be a contention-based RACHprocedure or a contention-free RACH procedure. The wireless device mayselect a beam associated with an SS block that may have the bestreceiving signal quality. The wireless device may successfully detect acell identifier associated with the cell and decode system informationwith a RACH configuration. The wireless device may use one PRACHpreamble and select one PRACH resource from RACH resources indicated bythe system information associated with the selected beam. A PRACHresource may comprise at least one of: a PRACH index indicating a PRACHpreamble, a PRACH format, a PRACH numerology, time and/or frequencyradio resource allocation, power setting of a PRACH transmission, and/orother radio resource parameters. For a contention-free RACH procedure,the PRACH preamble and resource may be indicated in a DCI or other highlayer signaling.

FIG. 16 shows an example of a random access procedure (e.g., via a RACH)that may include sending, by a base station, one or more SS blocks. Awireless device 1620 (e.g., a UE) may transmit one or more preambles toa base station 1621 (e.g., a gNB in NR). Each preamble transmission bythe wireless device may be associated with a separate random accessprocedure, such as shown in FIG. 16. The random access procedure maybegin at step 1601 with a base station 1621 (e.g., a gNB in NR) sendinga first SS block to a wireless device 1621 (e.g., a UE). Any of the SSblocks may comprise one or more of a PSS, SSS, tertiary synchronizationsignal (TSS), or PBCH signal. The first SS block in step 1601 may beassociated with a first PRACH configuration. At step 1602, the basestation 1621 may send to the wireless device 1620 a second SS block thatmay be associated with a second PRACH configuration. At step 1603, thebase station 1621 may send to the wireless device 1620 a third SS blockthat may be associated with a third PRACH configuration. At step 1604,the base station 1621 may send to the wireless device 1620 a fourth SSblock that may be associated with a fourth PRACH configuration. Anynumber of SS blocks may be sent in the same manner in addition to, orreplacing, steps 1603 and 1604. An SS burst may comprise any number ofSS blocks. For example, SS burst 1610 comprises the three SS blocks sentduring steps 1602-1604.

The wireless device 1620 may send to the base station 1621 a preamble,at step 1605, e.g., after or in response to receiving one or more SSblocks or SS bursts. The preamble may comprise a PRACH preamble, and maybe referred to as RA Msg 1. The PRACH preamble may be transmitted instep 1605 according to or based on a PRACH configuration that may bereceived in an SS block (e.g., one of the SS blocks from steps1601-1604) that may be determined to be the best SS block beam. Thewireless device 1620 may determine a best SS block beam from among SSblocks it may receive prior to sending the PRACH preamble. The basestation 1621 may send a random access response (RAR), which may bereferred to as RA Msg2, at step 1606, e.g., after or in response toreceiving the PRACH preamble. The RAR may be transmitted in step 1606via a DL beam that corresponds to the SS block beam associated with thePRACH configuration. The base station 1621 may determine the best SSblock beam from among SS blocks it previously sent prior to receivingthe PRACH preamble. The base station 1621 may receive the PRACH preambleaccording to or based on the PRACH configuration associated with thebest SS block beam.

The wireless device 1620 may send to the base station 1621 anRRCConnectionRequest and/or RRCConnectionResumeRequest message, whichmay be referred to as RA Msg3, at step 1607, e.g., after or in responseto receiving the RAR. The base station 1621 may send to the wirelessdevice 1620 an RRCConnectionSetup and/or RRCConnectionResume message,which may be referred to as RA Msg4, at step 1608, e.g., after or inresponse to receiving the RRCConnectionRequest and/orRRCConnectionResumeRequest message. The wireless device 1620 may send tothe base station 1621 an RRCConnectionSetupComplete and/orRRCConnectionResumeComplete message, which may be referred to as RAMsg5, at step 1609, e.g., after or in response to receiving theRRCConnectionSetup and/or RRCConnectionResume. An RRC connection may beestablished between the wireless device 1620 and the base station 1621,and the random access procedure may end, e.g., after or in response toreceiving the RRCConnectionSetupComplete and/orRRCConnectionResumeComplete message.

A best beam, including but not limited to a best SS block beam, may bedetermined based on a channel state information reference signal(CSI-RS). A wireless device may use a CSI-RS in a multi-beam system forestimating the beam quality of the links between the wireless device anda base station. For example, based on a measurement of a CSI-RS, awireless device may report CSI for downlink channel adaption. A CSIparameter may include a precoding matrix index (PMI), a channel qualityindex (CQI) value, and/or a rank indicator (RI). A wireless device mayreport a beam index based on a reference signal received power (RSRP)measurement on a CSI-RS. The wireless device may report the beam indexin a CSI resource indication (CRI) for downlink beam selection. A basestation may transmit a CSI-RS via a CSI-RS resource, such as via one ormore antenna ports, or via one or more time and/or frequency radioresources. A beam may be associated with a CSI-RS. A CSI-RS may comprisean indication of a beam direction. Each of a plurality of beams may beassociated with one of a plurality of CSI-RSs. A CSI-RS resource may beconfigured in a cell-specific way, e.g., via common RRC signaling.Additionally or alternatively, a CSI-RS resource may be configured in awireless device-specific way, e.g., via dedicated RRC signaling and/orlayer 1 and/or layer 2 (L1/L2) signaling. Multiple wireless devices inor served by a cell may measure a cell-specific CSI-RS resource. Adedicated subset of wireless devices in or served by a cell may measurea wireless device-specific CSI-RS resource. A base station may transmita CSI-RS resource periodically, using aperiodic transmission, or using amulti-shot or semi-persistent transmission. In a periodic transmission,a base station may transmit the configured CSI-RS resource using aconfigured periodicity in the time domain. In an aperiodic transmission,a base station may transmit the configured CSI-RS resource in adedicated time slot. In a multi-shot or semi-persistent transmission, abase station may transmit the configured CSI-RS resource in a configuredperiod. A base station may configure different CSI-RS resources indifferent terms for different purposes. Different terms may include,e.g., cell-specific, device-specific, periodic, aperiodic, multi-shot,or other terms. Different purposes may include, e.g., beam management,CQI reporting, or other purposes.

FIG. 17 shows an example of transmitting CSI-RSs periodically for abeam. A base station 1701 may transmit a beam in a predefined order inthe time domain, such as during time periods 1703. Beams used for aCSI-RS transmission, such as for CSI-RS 1704 in transmissions 1702Cand/or 1703E, may have a different beam width relative to a beam widthfor SS-blocks transmission, such as for SS blocks 1702A, 1702B, 1702D,and 1702F-1702H. Additionally or alternatively, a beam width of a beamused for a CSI-RS transmission may have the same value as a beam widthfor an SS block. Some or all of one or more CSI-RSs may be included inone or more beams. An SS block may occupy a number of OFDM symbols(e.g., 4), and a number of subcarriers (e.g., 240), carrying asynchronization sequence signal. The synchronization sequence signal mayidentify a cell.

FIG. 18 shows an example of a CSI-RS that may be mapped in time andfrequency domains. Each square shown in FIG. 18 may represent a resourceblock within a bandwidth of a cell. Each resource block may comprise anumber of subcarriers. A cell may have a bandwidth comprising a numberof resource blocks. A base station (e.g., a gNB in NR) may transmit oneor more Radio Resource Control (RRC) messages comprising CSI-RS resourceconfiguration parameters for one or more CSI-RS. One or more of thefollowing parameters may be configured by higher layer signaling foreach CSI-RS resource configuration: CSI-RS resource configurationidentity, number of CSI-RS ports, CSI-RS configuration (e.g., symbol andRE locations in a subframe), CSI-RS subframe configuration (e.g.,subframe location, offset, and periodicity in a radio frame), CSI-RSpower parameter, CSI-RS sequence parameter, CDM type parameter,frequency density, transmission comb, QCL parameters (e.g.,QCL-scramblingidentity, crs-portscount, mbsfn-subframeconfiglist,csi-rs-configZPid, qcl-csi-rs-configNZPid), and/or other radio resourceparameters.

FIG. 18 shows three beams that may be configured for a wireless device,e.g., in a wireless device-specific configuration. Any number ofadditional beams (e.g., represented by the column of blank squares) orfewer beams may be included. Beam 1 may be allocated with CSI-RS 1 thatmay be transmitted in some subcarriers in a resource block (RB) of afirst symbol. Beam 2 may be allocated with CSI-RS 2 that may betransmitted in some subcarriers in a RB of a second symbol. Beam 3 maybe allocated with CSI-RS 3 that may be transmitted in some subcarriersin a RB of a third symbol. All subcarriers in a RB may not necessarilybe used for transmitting a particular CSI-RS (e.g., CSI-RS 1) on anassociated beam (e.g., beam 1) for that CSI-RS. By using frequencydivision multiplexing (FDM), other subcarriers, not used for beam 1 forthe wireless device in the same RB, may be used for other CSI-RStransmissions associated with a different beam for other wirelessdevices. Additionally or alternatively, by using time domainmultiplexing (TDM), beams used for a wireless device may be configuredsuch that different beams (e.g., beam 1, beam 2, and beam 3) for thewireless device may be transmitted using some symbols different frombeams of other wireless devices.

Beam management may use a device-specific configured CSI-RS. In a beammanagement procedure, a wireless device may monitor a channel quality ofa beam pair link comprising a transmitting beam by a base station (e.g.,a gNB in NR) and a receiving beam by the wireless device (e.g., a UE).When multiple CSI-RSs associated with multiple beams are configured, awireless device may monitor multiple beam pair links between the basestation and the wireless device.

A wireless device may transmit one or more beam management reports to abase station. A beam management report may indicate one or more beampair quality parameters, comprising, e.g., one or more beamidentifications, RSRP, PMI, CQI, and/or RI, of a subset of configuredbeams.

A base station and/or a wireless device may perform a downlink L1/L2beam management procedure. One or more downlink L1/L2 beam managementprocedures may be performed within one or multiple transmission andreceiving points (TRPs), such as shown in FIG. 20A and FIG. 20B,respectively.

FIG. 19 shows examples of three beam management procedures, P1, P2, andP3. Procedure P1 may be used to enable a wireless device measurement ondifferent transmit (Tx) beams of a TRP (or multiple TRPs), e.g., tosupport a selection of Tx beams and/or wireless device receive (Rx)beam(s) (shown as shaded ovals in the top row and bottom row,respectively, of P1). Beamforming at a TRP (or multiple TRPs) mayinclude, e.g., an intra-TRP and/or inter-TRP Tx beam sweep from a set ofdifferent beams (shown, in the top rows of P1 and P2, as unshaded ovalsrotated in a counter-clockwise direction indicated by the dashed arrow).Beamforming at a wireless device 1901, may include, e.g., a wirelessdevice Rx beam sweep from a set of different beams (shown, in the bottomrows of P1 and P3, as unshaded ovals rotated in a clockwise directionindicated by the dashed arrow). Procedure P2 may be used to enable awireless device measurement on different Tx beams of a TRP (or multipleTRPs) (shown, in the top row of P2, as unshaded ovals rotated in acounter-clockwise direction indicated by the dashed arrow), e.g., whichmay change inter-TRP and/or intra-TRP Tx beam(s). Procedure P2 may beperformed, e.g., on a smaller set of beams for beam refinement than inprocedure P1. P2 may be a particular example of P1. Procedure P3 may beused to enable a wireless device measurement on the same Tx beam (shownas shaded oval in P3), e.g., to change a wireless device Rx beam if thewireless device 1901 uses beamforming.

A wireless device 1901 (e.g., a UE) and/or a base station 1902 (e.g., agNB) may trigger a beam failure recovery mechanism. The wireless device1901 may trigger a beam failure recovery (BFR) request transmission,e.g., if a beam failure event occurs. A beam failure event may include,e.g., a determination that a quality of beam pair link(s) of anassociated control channel is unsatisfactory. A determination of anunsatisfactory quality of beam pair link(s) of an associated channel maybe based on the quality falling below a threshold and/or an expirationof a timer.

The wireless device 1901 may measure a quality of beam pair link(s)using one or more reference signals (RS). One or more SS blocks, one ormore CSI-RS resources, and/or one or more demodulation reference signals(DM-RSs) of a PBCH may be used as a RS for measuring a quality of a beampair link. Each of the one or more CSI-RS resources may be associatedwith a CSI-RS resource index (CRI). A quality of a beam pair link may bebased on one or more of an RSRP value, reference signal received quality(RSRQ) value, and/or CSI value measured on RS resources. The basestation 1902 may indicate that an RS resource, e.g., that may be usedfor measuring a beam pair link quality, is quasi-co-located (QCLed) withone or more DM-RSs of a control channel. The RS resource and the DM-RSsof the control channel may be QCLed when the channel characteristicsfrom a transmission via an RS to the wireless device 1901, and thechannel characteristics from a transmission via a control channel to thewireless device, are similar or the same under a configured criterion.

FIG. 20A shows an example of a beam failure event involving a singleTRP. A single TRP such as at a base station 2001 may transmit, to awireless device 2002, a first beam 2003 and a second beam 2004. A beamfailure event may occur if, e.g., a serving beam, such as the secondbeam 2004, is blocked by a moving vehicle 2005 or other obstruction(e.g., building, tree, land, or any object) and configured beams (e.g.,the first beam 2003 and/or the second beam 2004), including the servingbeam, are received from the single TRP. The wireless device 2002 maytrigger a mechanism to recover from beam failure when a beam failureoccurs.

FIG. 20B shows an example of a beam failure event involving multipleTRPs. Multiple TRPs, such as at a first base station 2006 and at asecond base station 2009, may transmit, to a wireless device 2008, afirst beam 2007 (e.g., from the first base station 2006) and a secondbeam 2010 (e.g., from the second base station 2009). A beam failureevent may occur when, e.g., a serving beam, such as the second beam2010, is blocked by a moving vehicle 2011 or other obstruction (e.g.,building, tree, land, or any object) and configured beams (e.g., thefirst beam 2007 and/or the second beam 2010) are received from multipleTRPs. The wireless device 2008 may trigger a mechanism to recover frombeam failure when a beam failure occurs.

A wireless device may monitor a PDCCH, such as a New Radio PDCCH(NR-PDCCH), on M beam pair links simultaneously, where M≥1 and themaximum value of M may depend at least on the wireless devicecapability. Such monitoring may increase robustness against beam pairlink blocking. A base station may transmit, and the wireless device mayreceive, one or more messages configured to cause the wireless device tomonitor NR-PDCCH on different beam pair link(s) and/or in differentNR-PDCCH OFDM symbol.

A base station may transmit higher layer signaling, and/or a MAC controlelement (MAC CE), that may comprise parameters related to a wirelessdevice Rx beam setting for monitoring NR-PDCCH on multiple beam pairlinks. A base station may transmit one or more indications of a spatialQCL assumption between a first DL RS antenna port(s) and a second DL RSantenna port(s). The first DL RS antenna port(s) may be for one or moreof a cell-specific CSI-RS, device-specific CSI-RS, SS block, PBCH withDM-RSs of PBCH, and/or PBCH without DM-RSs of PBCH. The second DL RSantenna port(s) may be for demodulation of a DL control channel.Signaling for a beam indication for a NR-PDCCH (e.g., configuration tomonitor NR-PDCCH) may be via MAC CE signaling, RRC signaling, DCIsignaling, or specification-transparent and/or an implicit method, andany combination thereof.

For reception of unicast DL data channel, a base station may indicatespatial QCL parameters between DL RS antenna port(s) and DM-RS antennaport(s) of DL data channel. A base station may transmit DCI (e.g.,downlink grants) comprising information indicating the RS antennaport(s). The information may indicate the RS antenna port(s) which maybe QCLed with DM-RS antenna port(s). A different set of DM-RS antennaport(s) for the DL data channel may be indicated as a QCL with adifferent set of RS antenna port(s).

If a base station transmits a signal indicating a spatial QCL parametersbetween CSI-RS and DM-RS for PDCCH, a wireless device may use CSI-RSsQCLed with DM-RS for a PDCCH to monitor beam pair link quality. If abeam failure event occurs, the wireless device may transmit a beamfailure recovery request, such as by a determined configuration.

If a wireless device transmits a beam failure recovery request, e.g.,via an uplink physical channel or signal, a base station may detect thatthere is a beam failure event, for the wireless device, by monitoringthe uplink physical channel or signal. The base station may initiate abeam recovery mechanism to recover the beam pair link for transmittingPDCCH between the base station and the wireless device. The base stationmay transmit one or more control signals, to the wireless device, e.g.,after or in response to receiving the beam failure recovery request. Abeam recovery mechanism may be, e.g., an L1 scheme, or a higher layerscheme.

A base station may transmit one or more messages comprising, e.g.,configuration parameters of an uplink physical channel and/or a signalfor transmitting a beam failure recovery request. The uplink physicalchannel and/or signal may be based on at least one of the following: anon-contention based PRACH (e.g., a beam failure recovery PRACH orBFR-PRACH), which may use a resource orthogonal to resources of otherPRACH transmissions; a PUCCH (e.g., beam failure recovery PUCCH orBFR-PUCCH); and/or a contention-based PRACH resource. Combinations ofthese candidate signal and/or channels may be configured by a basestation.

A wireless device may transmit one or more sounding reference signals(SRS). A base station may send an indication for the wireless totransmit one or more SRS for channel quality estimation, which may be toenable frequency-selective scheduling on the uplink. Additionally oralternatively, transmission of SRS may be used for other purposes, suchas to enhance power control, and/or to support various startup functionsfor wireless devices not recently scheduled. Such startup functions mayinclude, e.g., initial modulation and coding scheme selection, initialpower control for data transmissions, timing advance, and/or frequencysemi-selective scheduling. Additionally or alternatively, transmissionof SRS may be used for uplink beam management. The uplink beammanagement may be used at least for adjusting transmission beam of thewireless device, when uplink beamforming is supported at the wirelessdevice.

Subframes in which SRSs may be transmitted by a wireless device within acell may be indicated by cell-specific broadcast signaling, and/or by awireless device-specific signaling. For common configured SRStransmission, the subframes for SRS transmission may be indicated by aRRC cell-specific parameter.

A wireless device may receive an indication to transmit at least one ofthree types of SRS: periodic SRS transmission (e.g., type 0), aperiodicSRS transmission (e.g., type 1), semi-persistent SRS transmission (e.g.,type 2). Periodic SRS transmission from a wireless may occur at regulartime intervals, e.g., from as often as once every 2 ms to asinfrequently as once every 160 ms. The SRS transmission may be in thelast several SC-FDMA or OFDM symbols in the configured subframes, suchas shown in FIG. 21.

FIG. 21 shows an example arrangement of subframes that may comprise SRStransmissions. Each rectangle at the top row of FIG. 21 may correspondto one subframe. An SRS period may comprise a plurality of subframes,such as N subframes. Each subframe may comprise a plurality of symbols,such as shown at the bottom row of FIG. 21. One or more symbols maycomprise an SRS transmission. An SRS transmission may be included ineach SRS period.

A base station (e.g., a gNB) may transmit, to a wireless device, a DCI.The base station may transmit the DCI via a PDCCH, e.g., as part of ascheduling grant, which may trigger an aperiodic SRS transmission, e.g.,a one-shot transmission. The time instants for periodic and aperiodicSRS may be configured per device using high layer signaling. Forexample, for wireless device-specific periodic SRS configuration, thesubframes used for SRS transmission may be indicated by a wirelessdevice-specific RRC signaling.

A wireless device may transmit SRS precoded with same or different Txbeams within a time duration. The wireless device may determine Tx beamfor SRS transmission, based on one or more of: applying gNB-transparentTx beam to SRS (e.g., the wireless device may determine a Tx beam foreach SRS port/resource), or -a base station indication (e.g., via SRI).

A wireless device may transmit SRSs, with a number of SRS ports (e.g.,1, 2, or 4), comb levels (e.g., 2 or 4), and/or configurable frequencyhopping, according to configuration parameters indicated by a RRCsignaling.

A wireless device may transmit SRSs using one or more configured SRSparameters. The one or more configured SRS parameters may comprise oneor more of: a SRS bandwidth, SRS numerologies, density in frequencydomain (e.g., comb levels) and/or in time domain (including, e.g.,multi-symbol SRS transmissions), partial band size, and full band size.

A base station (e.g., a gNB) may transmit to a wireless device one ormore RRC messages comprising one or more SRS configurations. At leastone of the one or more SRS configuration may comprise one or more SRSresources. At least one of the one or more SRS resources may comprise aSRS resource index (SRI), a set of resource elements (RE) within a timeduration and/or frequency span, and N antenna ports (e.g., where N≥1).At least one of the one or more SRS resources may be used for aperiodictransmission. A wireless device may transmit one or more SRSs by usingsequences that may achieve low-peak-to-average power ratio (e.g.,Zadoff-Chu sequences).

A wireless device may be equipped with multiple Tx antennas, which mayenable multiple uplink Tx beam transmission. The wireless device mayperform uplink beam management by configuration, at least if there is noreciprocity between downlink beamforming and uplink beamforming.

FIG. 22 shows an example of three types of uplink beam managementprocedures that may be supported by a wireless device 2201. A basestation 2202 (e.g., a gNB) and the wireless device 2201 may perform afirst type (e.g., U1) of uplink beam management procedure, e.g., toselect a suitable beam pair link (shown as shaded ovals in U1) between aTx beam of the wireless device 2201 (shown in the bottom row of U1 asunshaded ovals rotated in a clockwise direction indicated by the dashedarrow) and a Rx beam of the base station 2202 (shown in the top row ofU1 as unshaded ovals rotated in a counter-clockwise direction indicatedby the dashed arrow). This first type of uplink beam managementprocedure may comprise beam sweeping by the wireless device and/or beamsweeping by the base station 2202. The base station 2202 may perform asecond type (e.g., U2) of uplink beam management procedure, e.g., tochange a Rx beam such as by performing a Rx beam sweeping (shown in thetop row of U2 as unshaded ovals rotated in a counter-clockwise directionindicated by the dashed arrow). During this second type of uplink beamprocedure, the base station 2202 may assume that the Tx beam directionof the wireless device 2201 is fixed (shown as the shaded oval in thebottom row of U2). The wireless device 2201 may perform a third type(e.g., U3) of uplink beam management procedure, e.g., to change a Txbeam such as by performing a Tx beam sweeping (shown in the bottom rowof U3 as unshaded ovals rotated in a clockwise direction indicated bythe dashed arrow). During this third type of uplink beam managementprocedure, the base station 2202 may indicate the best Tx beam (shown asthe shaded ovals in the top row of U3) to the wireless device 2201.

The wireless device 2201 may perform random access procedure on multipleTx beams, e.g., in the first procedure U1. The base station 2202 maytransmit a RAR on a Tx beam, e.g., in the first procedure U1, and theRAR may include the information of the best determined Tx beam thewireless device may use.

The base station 2202 may transmit, e.g., in the second procedure U2, anindication to the wireless device 2201 to keep a Tx beam unchanged for aconfigured time, during which, the base station 2202 may perform a Rxbeam sweeping to find out the best determined Rx beam. The wirelessdevice 2201 may not necessarily know which Rx beam the base station 2202may finally select.

The base station 2202 may transmit, e.g., to the wireless device 2201 inthe third procedure U3, a DCI that may trigger uplink transmit beamsweeping by the wireless device 2201 in a configured time, during which,the base station 2202 may keep the RX beam unchanged. The base station2202 may measure the channel of the beam pair link. The base station2202 may indicate to the wireless device 2201 a best determined Tx beam.The wireless device 2201 may use the best determined Tx beam for futureuplink transmission, e.g., if the Tx beam satisfies a selectioncriteria.

The base station 2202 may perform beam selection based on measurement ofone or more uplink reference signals (e.g., SRSs). The base station 2202may transmit one or more message comprising one or more SRSconfigurations. The one or more SRS configuration may comprise one ormore of: SRS resource index (SRI), SRS time parameters (e.g., subframe,offset, symbols, duration), frequency parameters (e.g., SRS bandwidth,frequency position, hopping bandwidth, comb factors), cyclic shiftparameter, beam sweeping parameters (e.g., beam sweeping duration, beamrotating, or beam kept fixed). The base station 2202 may transmit one ormore control information that may trigger an uplink beam sweeping. Theone or more control information may comprise at least one or more SRSresources. The wireless device 2201 may transmit one or more SRSs usingthe SRS parameters configured by an RRC message and/or indicated by aDCI. The base station 2202 may select the Tx beam using a selectioncriteria (e.g., the best RSRP of received SRS). The base station 2202may indicate, to the wireless device 2201 via one or more downlinkcontrol information, the SRI associated with the selected Tx beam.

An uplink beam failure event may occur, e.g., in the third procedure U3,if the wireless device 2201 fails to receive a DCI indicating the bestTx beam. An uplink beam failure may be recovered using an L1 or higherlayer mechanism.

The base station 2202 may transmit, via a PDCCH, a DCI for schedulingdecision and power-control commands. The DCI may comprise one or moreof: downlink scheduling assignments, uplink scheduling grants, orpower-control commands. The downlink scheduling assignments may compriseone or more of: PDSCH resource indication, transport format, HARQinformation, control information related to multiple antenna schemes, ora command for power control of the PUCCH used for transmission ofACK/NACK based on or in response to downlink scheduling assignments. Theuplink scheduling grants may comprise one or more of: PUSCH resourceindication, transport format, HARQ related information, or a powercontrol command of the PUSCH.

Different types of control information may correspond to different DCIpayload sizes. For example, supporting spatial multiplexing withnoncontiguous allocation of RBs in the frequency domain may require alarger scheduling message in comparison with an uplink grant that mayallow only frequency-contiguous allocation. The DCI may be categorizedinto different DCI formats, where a format may correspond to a certainpayload size and/or usage. The wireless device 2201 may monitor one ormore PDCCH to detect one or more DCI with one or more DCI format. Theone or more PDCCH may be transmitted in common search space or wirelessdevice-specific search space. The wireless device 2201 may monitor PDCCHwith only a limited set of DCI format, e.g., to save power consumption.The wireless device 2201 may not be required to detect a DCI with someDCI formats (e.g., DCI format 6, which may be used for an eMTC wirelessdevice). The more DCI formats to be detected, the more power may beconsumed at the wireless device 2201.

Information in the DCI formats that may be used for downlink schedulingmay be organized into different groups. One or more fields of the DCIformats may comprise one or more of: resource information, such as acarrier indicator (e.g., 0 or 3 bits) and/or a RB allocation; a HARQprocess number; an MCS, NDI, and/or RV (e.g., for the first TB and/orfor the second TB); MIMO related information such as PMI, precodinginformation, a transport block swap flag, a power offset between PDSCHand a reference signal, a reference-signal scrambling sequence, a numberof layers, and/or a number of antenna ports for a transmission; PDSCHresource-element mapping and/or QCI; downlink assignment index (DAI); aTPC for PUCCH; a SRS request (e.g., 1 bit), that may comprise anindication of or trigger for a one-shot SRS transmission; an ACK and/orNACK offset; a DCI format indication, e.g., which may be used todifferentiate between DCI format 1A and DCI format 0 or other formatsthat may have the same message size; and/or padding (e.g., ifnecessary).

Information in the DCI formats that may be used for uplink schedulingmay be organized into different groups. One or more fields of the DCIformats may comprise one or more of: resource information, such as acarrier indicator, resource allocation type, and/or a RB allocation; anMCS and/or NDI (e.g., for the first TB and/or for the second TB); aphase rotation of the uplink DMRS; precoding information; a CSI request,a request for an aperiodic CSI report; a SRS request (e.g., 2 bits),that may comprise an indication of or a trigger for an aperiodic SRStransmission that may use one of up to three preconfigured settings; anuplink index/DAI; a TPC for PUSCH; a DCI format indication, e.g., whichmay be used to differentiate between DCI format 1A and DCI format 0;and/or padding (e.g., if necessary).

A base station may transmit one or more PDCCH in different controlresource sets, e.g., which may support wide bandwidth operation. Thebase station may transmit one or more RRC message comprisingconfiguration parameters of one or more control resource sets. At leastone of the one or more control resource sets may comprise one or moreof: a first OFDM symbol (e.g., CORESET_StartSymbol); a number ofconsecutive OFDM symbols (e.g., CORESET_NumSymbol); a set of resourceblocks (e.g., CORESET_RBSet); a CCE-to-REG mapping (e.g.,CORESET_mapping); and/or a REG bundle size, such as for interleavedCCE-to-REG mapping (e.g., CORESET_REG_bundle).

The base station may transmit one or more message comprisingconfiguration parameters of one or more active bandwidth parts (BWP).The one or more active BWPs may have different numerologies. The basestation may transmit one or more control information for cross-BWPscheduling to a wireless device.

Transmission Power Control of SRS for Uplink Beam Management

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more radio resourcecontrol message comprising one or more parameters of uplink powercontrol. The one or more parameters may comprise at least one of: afirst power parameter (e.g., P_(O)), a second power parameter (e.g.,alpha), a third power parameter (e.g., P_(CMAX)).

In an example, a UE may transmit a PUSCH with a transmission power(P_(PUSCH)). The UE may determine a transmission power P_(PUSCH) onsubframe i for a serving cell c by: P_(PUSCH,c)(i)=min{P_(CMAX,c)(i), 10log₁₀(M_(PUSCH,c)(i))+P_(O_PUSCH,c)(j)+α_(c)(j)·PL_(c)+Δ_(TF,c)(i)+f_(c)(i)}[dBm].In an example, P_(CMAX,c)(i) may be a configured UE transmit power insubframe i for serving cell c. M_(PUSCH,c) (i) may be a bandwidth valueof the PUSCH resource assignment expressed in fraction of a resourceblock. P_(O_PUSCH,c)(j) and α_(c)(j) may be open loop parametersconfigured by high layer for the serving cell c in subframe i. PL_(c)may be a path loss measured by the wireless device. Δ_(TF,c)(i) may be adelta parameter. f_(c)(i) may be a current PUSCH power controladjustment state for serving cell c.

In an example, a UE may determine f_(c)(i) based on an accumulationparameter (e.g., Accumulation-enabled or tpc-Accumulation) indicated byhigh layer signaling. If accumulation is enabled based on theaccumulation parameter, the UE may determine f_(c)(i) byf_(c)(i)=f_(c)(i-1)+δ_(PUSCH,c)(i-K_(PUSCH)). If accumulation is notenabled based on the accumulation parameter, the UE may determinef_(c)(i)=δ_(PUSCH,c)(i-K_(PUSCH)). In an example,δ_(PUSCH,c)(i-K_(PUSCH)) may be signaled on PDCCH/EPDCCH with a DCIformat (e.g., DCI format 0/0A/0B/4/4A/4B in LTE/LTE_A specification) onsubframe/slot i-K_(PUSCH). K_(PUSCH) may be a predefined value, or aconfigured value.

In an example, for CSI acquisition, a UE may transmit one or more SRSwith a transmit power (P_(SRS)). The UE may determine a transmissionpower P_(SRS) on subframe i for serving cell c by:P_(SRS)(i)=min{P_(CMAX,c)(i), 10log₁₀(M_(SRS,c))+P_(O_SRS,c)(m)+α_(SRS,c)·PL_(c)+f_(SRS,c)(i)}[dBm], ifframe structure type 2 (e.g., TDD configurations) is configured forserving cell c, and PUSCH/PUCCH transmission is not configured forserving cell c (in which case, the serving cell c is referred to asPUSCH-less cell). If frame structure for serving cell c is not framestructure type 2, (or is frame structure type 1 (e.g., FDD), or otherframe structures other than frame structure type 2), and/or PUSCH/PUCCHtransmission is configured for serving cell c, The UE may determine atransmission power P_(SRS) on subframe i for serving cell c by:P_(SRS,c)(i)=min{P_(CMAX,c)(i), P_(SRS_OFFSET,c)(m)+10log₁₀(M_(SRS,c))+P_(O_PUSCH,c)(j)+α_(c)(j)·PL_(c)+f_(c)(i)}[dBm]. In anexample, P_(CMAX,c)(i) may be a configured UE transmit power in subframei for serving cell c. P_(SRS_OFFSET,c)(m) may be semi-staticallyconfigured by higher layers for m=0 and m=1 for serving cell c.M_(SRS,c) may be a bandwidth of the SRS transmission in subframe i forserving cell c expressed in number of resource blocks. f_(c)(i) may be acurrent PUSCH power control adjustment state for serving cell c.P_(O_PUSCH,c)(j) and α_(c)(j) may be open loop parameters configured byhigh layer for subframe. α_(SRS,c) may be a higher layer parameter(e.g., alpha-SRS) configured by higher layers for serving cell c.P_(O_SRS,c)(m) may be an open loop parameter composed of a sum of acomponent P_(O_NOMINAL_SRS,c)(m) which is p0-Nominal-PeriodicSRS orp0-Nominal-AperiodicSRS provided from higher layers for m=0 or 1 and acomponent P_(O_UE_SRS,c)) which is p0-UE-PeriodicSRS orp0-UE-AperiodicSRS provided by higher layers for serving cell c.

In an example, when a serving cell c is configured with frame structuretype 2 and the serving cell c is not configured with PUSCH/PUCCHtransmission, a wireless device may determine the parameter f_(SRS,c)(i)by f_(SRS,c)(i)=f_(SRS,c)(i-1)+δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS)), when accumulationis enabled. The wireless device may determine the parameter f_(SRS,c)(i)by f_(SRS,c)(i)=δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS)), when accumulation is not enabledbased on higher layer parameter (e.g., Accumulation-enabled, ortpc-Accumulation). δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS)) is a correction value, alsoreferred to as a SRS transmission power control (TPC) command signaledon PDCCH with a DCI format (e.g., DCI format 3B) in the most recentsubframe i-K_(SRS), where K_(SRS)>=4.

In an example, the correction value δ_(SRS) may be indicated by a TPCcommand field (e.g., 1 bit or 2 bits) in a DCI format (e.g., DCI format3B). If accumulation is enabled, a 2-bit TPC command field setting to“00” may indicate the correction value δ_(SRS) is −1 dB, TPC commandfield setting to “01” may indicate the correction value δ_(SRS) is 0 dB,TPC command field setting to “10” may indicate the correction valueδ_(SRS) is 1 dB, and TPC command field setting to “11” may indicate thecorrection value δ_(SRS) is 3 dB. If accumulation is not enabled, TPCcommand field setting to “00” may indicate the correction value δ_(SRS)is −4 dB, TPC command field setting to “01” may indicate the correctionvalue δ_(SRS) is −1 dB, TPC command field setting to “10” may indicatethe correction value δ_(SRS) is 1 dB, and TPC command field setting to“11” may indicate the correction value δ_(SRS) is 4 dB.

In an LTE/LTE_A system, SRS transmission may share with PUSCHtransmission one or more power control parameters. For example, anaccumulation parameter “accumulationEnabled” or “tpc-Accumulation”,configured in high layer signaling, may apply for both PUSCH and SRS.TPC command in a DCI may apply for both PUSCH and SRS. In an example,when a cell is a PUSCH-less cell (e.g., configured without PUSCH/PUCCHtransmission) and is configured with TDD frame structure, a base stationmay be allowed to configure for SRS transmission a separate/dedicatedparameter indicating whether accumulation is enabled or not. A wirelessdevice may determining f_(SRS,c)(i) and/or P_(SRS)(i) according to theseparate/dedicated parameter. When the cell is configured withPUSCH/PUCCH transmission and/or is configured with FDD frame structure(or other frame structures other than TDD), the base station may not beallowed to configure for SRS transmission a separate/dedicated parameterindicating whether accumulation is enabled or not. The wireless devicemay always determine f_(SRS,c)(i) and/or PSRS(i) based on theaccumulation parameter configured for PUSCH transmission. For example,when the cell is configured with PUSCH/PUCCH transmission and/or isconfigured with FDD frame structure (or other frame structures otherthan TDD), if the accumulation parameter (e.g., Accumulation-enabled, ortpc-Accumulation) in a RRC message is set to “enabled”, the wirelessdevice may determine P_(SRS)(i) based on f_(c)(i), wheref_(c)(i)=f_(c)(i-1)+δ_(PUSCH,c)(i-K_(PUSCH)). When the cell isconfigured with PUSCH/PUCCH transmission and/or is configured with FDDframe structure (or other frame structures other than TDD), if theaccumulation parameter (e.g., Accumulation-enabled, or tpc-Accumulation)in a RRC message is set to “not enabled” (or “disabled”), the wirelessdevice may determine P_(SRS)(i) based on f_(c)(i), wheref_(c)(i)=δ_(PUSCH,c)(i-K_(PUSCH)). In an example, sharing some powercontrol parameters (e.g., comprising the accumulation parameter) forPUSCH transmission and SRS transmission may be valid and straightforwardfor an LTE/LTE_A system, where uplink transmission beamforming may benot supported. In the LTE/LTE_A system, the wireless device may transmitSRS for a CSI acquisition. The wireless device may not be required totransmit SRS for uplink beam management in the LTE/LTE_A system.

In a NR system, a wireless device may support multiple Tx beams. Thewireless device may transmit SRSs for a CSI acquisition or an uplinkbeam management. SRS transmission for uplink beam management may bedifferent from SRS transmission for CSI acquisition, in terms of beamwidth, and/or antenna power number. For example, a UE may transmit oneor more first SRSs for the uplink beam management with wide beam widthand/or small number of antenna ports (e.g., 1 or 2). The UE may transmitone or more second SRSs for the CSI acquisition with narrow beam widthand/or large number of antenna ports (e.g., 4 or 8). In an example, whenperforming uplink beam management procedure, a base station may selectone or more Tx beam based on the received one or more SRS with differentbeam direction. In an example, when performing CSI acquisition, a basestation may estimate the CSI value(s) based on the received one or moreSRS with multiple antenna ports. In an example, a base station mayrequire different receiving power for SRS transmission for uplink beammanagement and SRS transmission for CSI acquisition. Different receivingpower may require different power control mechanism.

In an example, with the uplink beam management (e.g., U1 or U3 in FIG.22), the wireless device may transmit multiple SRSs in a beam sweepingway to help a base station to identify a suitable beam pair link. Thewireless device may not transmit PUSCH in a beam sweep way and maytransmit PUSCH with a Tx beam identified in the uplink beam management.SRS transmission in a beam sweeping way may require different powercontrol settings from PUSCH transmission with a single beam. Existingpower control technologies may result in delay of uplink beam managementwhen a wireless device support multiple Tx beam transmission. Existingpower control technologies may result in extra power consumption foruplink beam management. Example embodiments may provide methods toimprove uplink beam management delay and/or improve power consumption.The methods may comprise decoupling power control settings for PUSCH andSRS transmission. The methods may comprise configuring by a basestation, separate power control parameters for PUSCH and SRStransmission. The methods may comprise determining by a wireless device,transmission power of PUSCH and SRS separately according to the separatepower control parameters.

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more radio resourcecontrol (e.g., RRC) message comprising one or more parameters of SRSresource configuration. The one or more parameters may compriseparameters of one or more of SRS resource set. One SRS resource set maybe identified by a first set index and at least one of: bandwidth;frequency hopping; transmission comb and offset; time domain resourceallocation; frequency-domain position; and/or antenna ports.

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more MAC controlelement comprising one or more parameters indicating activation ordeactivation of one or more SRS resource set. The one or more parametersmay comprise parameters of the one or more of SRS resource set. One SRSresource set may be identified by a first set index and at least one of:bandwidth; frequency hopping; transmission comb and offset; time domainresource allocation; frequency-domain position; and/or antenna ports.

In an example, the one or more MAC control element forActivation/Deactivation of SRS resources may be identified by a MACsubheader with a LCID. The LCID for SRS resource MAC control element mayhave a fixed value, different from other LCIDs for other types of MACECE or MAC SDU. The one or more MAC CE may have variable size accordingto the number of SRS process. In an example, the number of SRS processmay be configured in a RRC signaling. An Activation/Deactivation SRScommand may activate or deactivate SRS resources for a SRS process,associated with one or more SRS resource set. A UE may be configuredwith one or more SRS processes.

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more RRC messagecomprising one or more power control parameters of SRS transmission. Theone or more power control parameters may comprise one or more SRS powercontrol parameter set. One SRS power control parameter set may compriseat least one of: a second set index; a SRS indication parameterindicating whether absolute power control adjustment, or accumulatedpower control adjustment is enabled for SRS transmission; and/or one ormore SRS power control parameters. The one or more SRS power controlparameters may comprise at least one of: allowable transmission power(e.g., P_(CMAX)); target receiving power (e.g., P_(O)); powercompensation factor (e.g., alpha); and/or one or more power offset.

In an example, a base station may transmit a first DCI triggering a SRStransmission for CSI acquisition. The first DCI may comprise one of: oneor more SRS resource set index; one or more SRS power control parameterset index; and/or one or more power control command.

In an example, in response to receiving the first DCI, a wireless devicemay transmit one or more SRS with a transmission power, by using one ormore SRS resource indicated by the one or more SRS resource set index.In an example, the wireless device may determine the transmission powerbased on one or more SRS power control parameters associated with one ofthe one or more SRS power control parameter set indicated by the one ormore SRS power control parameter set index. The transmission power maycomprise a power control adjustment. In an example, the wireless devicemay determine the power control adjustment based on a power controlcommand signaled in the first DCI, if a SRS indication parameterassociated with one of the one or more SRS power control parameter setindicated by the one or more SRS power control parameter set indexindicates absolute power control adjustment is enabled. The UE maydetermine the power control adjustment based on combination of aprevious SRS transmission power adjustment and the power control commandsignaled on the first DCI, if the SRS indication parameter indicatesaccumulated power control adjustment is enabled.

In an example, a base station may transmit a second DCI triggering a SRStransmission for uplink beam management. The second DCI may comprise oneof: one or more second SRS resource set index; one or more second SRSpower control parameter set index; and/or one or more second SRS powercontrol command.

In an example, in response to receiving the second DCI, the wirelessdevice may transmit one or more SRS with a transmission power, by usingone or more SRS resource indicated in the one or more second SRSresource set index. In an example, the wireless device may determine thetransmission power based on one or more SRS power control parametersassociated with one of the one or more SRS power control parameter setindicated in the one or more second SRS power control parameter setindex. The transmission power may comprise a power control adjustment.In an example, the wireless device may determine a power controladjustment based on a second power control command signaled on thesecond DCI, if the SRS indication parameter associated with one of theone or more SRS power control parameter set indicated by the one or moresecond SRS power control parameter set index indicates absolute powercontrol adjustment is enabled. In an example, the wireless device maydetermine the power control adjustment based on combination of aprevious SRS transmission power adjustment and a second power controlcommand signaled on the second DCI, if the SRS indication parameterindicates accumulated power control adjustment is enabled.

In an example, by using different power control parameter configurationfor different SRS (e.g., SRS for CSI acquisition, SRS for uplink beammanagement), a wireless device may transmit different SRS with differenttransmission power to meet the requirement of signal quality at a basestation.

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more RRC messagecomprising one or more parameters of SRS resource configuration. The oneor more parameters may comprise one or more of SRS resource set. One SRSresource set may comprise at least one of: bandwidth; frequency hopping;transmission comb and offset; time domain resource allocation;frequency-domain position; and/or antenna ports.

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more RRC messagecomprising one or more power control parameters of SRS transmission. Theone or more power control parameters may comprise one or more first SRSpower control parameter set for uplink beam management and one or moresecond SRS power control parameter set for CSI acquisition. One of theone or more first SRS power control parameter set may comprise at leastone of: a SRS indication parameter indicating whether absolute powercontrol adjustment or accumulated power control adjustment is enabledfor SRS transmission; and one or more SRS power control parameterscomprising at least one of: allowable transmission power (e.g.,P_(CMAX)); target receiving power (e.g., P_(O)); power compensationfactor (e.g., alpha); and/or one or more power offset. One of the one ormore second SRS power control parameter set may comprise at least oneof: a SRS indication parameter indicating whether absolute power controladjustment, or accumulated power control adjustment may be used for SRStransmission; and one or more SRS power control parameters comprising atleast one of: allowable transmission power (e.g., P_(CMAX)); targetreceiving power (e.g., P_(O)); power compensation factor (e.g., alpha);and/or one or more power offset.

In an example, a base station may transmit a first DCI triggering a SRStransmission for CSI acquisition. The one or more DCI may comprise oneof: one or more SRS resource set index; and/or one or more power controlcommand. In response to receiving the first DCI, a wireless device maytransmit one or more SRS with a transmission power, by using one or moreSRS resource associated with one of the one or more SRS resource setindicated in the one or more SRS resource set index. In an example, thewireless device may determine the transmission power based on the one ormore SRS power control parameters indicated in the one or more first SRSpower control parameter set. The transmission power may comprise atleast a power control adjustment. The power control adjustment maydepend on a SRS indication parameter associated with the one or morefirst SRS power control parameter set.

In an example, a base station may transmit a second DCI triggering a SRStransmission for uplink beam management. The second DCI may comprise oneof: one or more SRS resource set index; one or more SRS power controlcommand. In response to receiving the second DCI, a wireless device maytransmit one or more SRS with a transmission power, by using one or moreSRS resource associated with one of the one or more SRS resource setindicated in the one or more SRS resource set index. The wireless devicemay determine the transmission power based on the one or more SRS powercontrol parameters indicated in the one or more second SRS power controlparameter set. The transmission power may comprise at least a powercontrol adjustment. The power control adjustment may depend on the SRSindication parameter associated with the one or more second SRS powercontrol parameter set.

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more RRC messagecomprising one or more parameters of SRS resource configuration. The oneor more parameters may comprise one or more SRS resource set. One SRSresource set may comprise at least one of: bandwidth; frequency hopping;transmission comb and offset; time domain resource allocation;frequency-domain position; and/or antenna ports.

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more RRC messagecomprising one or more power control parameters of SRS transmission. Theone or more power control parameters may comprise one or more first SRSpower control parameter set and one or more second SRS power controlparameter set. One of the one or more first SRS power control parameterset may comprise at least one of: a SRS indication parameter indicatingwhether absolute power control adjustment, or accumulated power controladjustment may be used for SRS transmission; and one or more SRS powercontrol parameters comprising at least one of: allowable transmissionpower (e.g., P_(CMAX)); target receiving power (e.g., P_(O)); powercompensation factor (e.g., alpha); and/or one or more power offset. Oneof the one or more second SRS power control parameter set may compriseat least one of: a SRS indication parameter indicating whether absolutepower control adjustment, or accumulated power control adjustment may beused for SRS transmission; and one or more SRS power control parameterscomprising at least one of: allowable transmission power (e.g.,P_(CMAX)); target receiving power (e.g., P_(O)); power compensationfactor (e.g., alpha); and/or one or more power offset.

In an example, the one or more first SRS power control parameter set maybe used for SRS transmission for CSI acquisition. The one or more secondSRS power control parameter set may be used for SRS transmission foruplink beam management.

In an example, a base station may transmit a first DCI triggering a SRStransmission for CSI acquisition. The first DCI may comprise one of: oneor more SRS resource set index; one or more first SRS power controlparameter set index; and/or one or more power control command. Inresponse to receiving the first DCI, a wireless device may transmit oneor more SRS with a transmission power, by using one or more SRS resourceassociated with one of the one or more SRS resource set indicated in theone or more SRS resource set index. The wireless device may determinethe transmission power based on one or more SRS power control parametersassociated with one of the one or more first SRS power control parameterset indicated by the one or more first SRS power control parameter setindex, and a power control adjustment. The power control adjustment maydepend on the SRS indication parameter associated with one of the one ormore first SRS power control parameter set indicated by the one or morefirst SRS power control parameter set index.

In an example, a base station may transmit a second DCI triggering a SRStransmission for uplink beam management. The second DCI may comprise oneof: one or more SRS resource set index; one or more second SRS powercontrol parameter set index; one or more SRS power control command. Inresponse to receiving the second DCI, a wireless device may transmit oneor more SRS with a transmission power, by using one or more SRS resourceassociated with one of the one or more SRS resource set indicated in theone or more SRS resource set index. The wireless device may determinethe transmission power based on one or more SRS power control parametersassociated with one of the one or more second SRS power controlparameter set indicated by the one or more second SRS power controlparameter set index. The transmission power may comprise at least apower control adjustment. The power control adjustment may depend on theSRS indication parameter associated with one of the one or more secondSRS power control parameter set indicated by the one or more second SRSpower control parameter set index.

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more RRC messagecomprising one or more parameters of SRS resource configuration. The oneor more parameters may comprise one or more of SRS resource set. One SRSresource set may comprise at least one of: bandwidth; frequency hopping;transmission comb and offset; time domain resource allocation;frequency-domain position; and/or antenna ports.

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more RRC messagecomprising one or more power control parameters of SRS transmissioncomprising one or more first SRS power control parameter set and one ormore second SRS power control parameter set. One of the one or morefirst SRS power control parameter set may comprise at least one of: aSRS indication parameter indicating whether absolute power controladjustment may be used for SRS transmission, or accumulated powercontrol adjustment may be used for SRS transmission; one or more SRSpower control parameters. One of the one or more second SRS powercontrol parameter set may comprise one or more SRS power controlparameters.

In an example, the one or more first SRS power control parameter set maybe used for CSI acquisition. The one or more second SRS power controlparameter set may be used for uplink beam management.

In an example, a base station may transmit a first DCI triggering a SRStransmission for CSI acquisition. The first DCI may comprise one of: oneor more SRS resource set index; one or more first SRS power controlparameter set index; and/or one or more power control command. Inresponse to receiving the first DCI, a wireless device may transmit oneor more SRS with a transmission power, with one or more SRS resourceassociated with one of the one or more SRS resource set indicated in theone or more SRS resource set index. The wireless device may determinethe transmission power based on the one or more SRS power controlparameters associated with one of the one or more first SRS powercontrol parameter set indicated by the one or more first SRS powercontrol parameter set index. The transmission power may comprise atleast a power control adjustment. The power control adjustment maydepend on the SRS indication parameter associated with one of the one ormore first SRS power control parameter set indicated by the one or morefirst SRS power control parameter set index.

In an example, a base station may transmit a second DCI triggering a SRStransmission for uplink beam management. The second DCI may comprise oneof: one or more SRS resource set index; one or more second SRS powercontrol parameter set index; and/or one or more power control command.In response to receiving the second DCI, a wireless device may transmitone or more SRS with a transmission power on one or more SRS resourceassociated with one of the one or more SRS resource set indicated in theone or more SRS resource set index. The wireless device may determine atransmission power based on the one or more SRS power control parametersassociated with one of the one or more second SRS power controlparameter set indicated by the one or more second SRS power controlparameter set index. The transmission power may comprise at least apower control adjustment. The power control adjustment may be based onan absolute power adjustment. The power control adjustment may be basedon a power control command signaled on PDCCH with the second DCI.

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more RRC messagecomprising one or more power control parameters of PUSCH transmission.The one or more power control parameters may comprise one or more PUSCHpower control parameter set. On PUSCH power control parameter set maycomprise at least one of: a first set index, a PUSCH indicationparameter indicating whether absolute power control adjustment oraccumulated power control adjustment may be used for PUSCH transmission,and one or more PUSCH power control parameters comprising at least oneof: allowable transmission power (e.g., P_(CMAX)); target receivingpower (e.g., P_(O)); and/or power compensation factor (e.g., alpha).

In an example, a base station may transmit a DCI indicating a PUSCHscheduling. The DCI may comprise one of: one or more PUSCH resourceconfiguration, one or more PUSCH power control parameter set index, oneor more PUSCH power control command. In an example, when receiving theDCI, a wireless device may transmit one or more PUSCH with atransmission power, on one or more PUSCH resource indicated in the oneor more PUSCH resource configuration. The wireless device may determinea transmission power for PUSCH transmission, based on the one or morePUSCH power control parameters indicated in the one or more PUSCH powercontrol parameter set index. The transmission power may comprise atleast a power control adjustment. The power control adjustment maydepend on the PUSCH indication parameter associated with the one or morePUSCH power control parameter set.

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more RRC messagecomprising one or more parameters of SRS resource configuration. The oneor more parameters may comprise one or more of SRS resource setcomprising at least one of: bandwidth; frequency hopping; transmissioncomb and offset; time domain resource allocation; frequency-domainposition; and/or antenna ports. The base station may transmit one ormore RRC message comprising one or more power control parameters of SRStransmission. The one or more power control parameters may comprise oneor more SRS power control parameter set. One SRS power control parameterset may comprise at least one of: an SRS indication parameter indicatingwhether absolute power control adjustment or accumulated power controladjustment may be used for SRS transmission; and one or more SRS powercontrol parameters. The base station may transmit one or more RRCmessage comprising one or more power control parameters of PUSCHtransmission. The one or more power control parameters may comprise oneor more PUSCH power control parameter set. One PUSCH power controlparameter set may comprise at least one of: an PUSCH indicationparameter indicating whether absolute power control adjustment oraccumulated power control adjustment may be used; and/or one or morePUSCH power control parameters.

In an example, a base station may transmit a first DCI with one or morefirst DCI format triggering SRS transmission for uplink beam management,to a wireless device. The first DCI may be CRC-scrambled by a firstRadio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI). The first DCI may comprise atleast one of: one or more first SRS resource set index; and one or morefirst SRS power control command. In response to receiving the first DCItriggering SRS transmission for uplink beam management, the wirelessdevice may transmit SRS with a transmission power via one or more radioresource indicated in the one or more first SRS resource set index. Thewireless device may determine a transmission power based on one or moreSRS power control parameters in the one or more SRS power controlparameter set.

In an example, a base station may transmit a second DCI with one or moresecond DCI format scheduling PUSCH transmission and aperiodic SRStransmission for CSI acquisition, to a wireless device. The second DCIwith the one or more second DCI format may be CRC-scrambled by the firstRNTI. The second DCI may comprise at least one of: PUSCH resourceinformation; one or more second SRS resource set index; and one or moreTPC for PUSCH. In response to receiving the second DCI, the wirelessdevice may transmit PUSCH with a transmission power based on the PUSCHindication parameter associated with the one or more PUSCH power controlparameter set. In response to receiving the second DCI, the wirelessdevice may transmit SRS for CSI acquisition with a transmission powerbased on one or more power control parameters in the one or more PUSCHpower control parameter set.

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more RRC messagecomprising one or more parameters of SRS resource configuration. The oneor more parameters may comprise one or more of SRS resource set. One SRSresource set may comprise at least one of: bandwidth; frequency hopping;transmission comb and offset; time domain resource allocation;frequency-domain position; and/or antenna ports. The base station maytransmit one or more RRC message comprising one or more power controlparameters of SRS transmission. The one or more power control parametersmay comprise one or more first SRS power control parameter set and oneor more second SRS power control parameter set. One of the one or morefirst SRS power control parameter set may comprise at least one of: anSRS indication parameter indicating whether absolute power controladjustment or accumulated power control adjustment may be used for SRStransmission; and one or more SRS power control parameters. One of theone or more second SRS power control parameter set may comprise at leastone of: an SRS indication parameter indicating whether absolute powercontrol adjustment or accumulated power control adjustment may be usedfor SRS transmission; and one or more SRS power control parameters.

In an example, the one or more first SRS power control parameter set maybe used for uplink beam management. The one or more second SRS powercontrol parameter set may be used for CSI acquisition.

In an example, a base station may transmit a first DCI triggering SRStransmission for uplink beam management. The base station may transmit asecond DCI triggering SRS transmission for CSI acquisition. The firstDCI may have a different DCI format with the second DCI. The first DCImay have the same or similar DCI payload size with the second DCI. Thefirst DCI may have CRC-scrambled by a first RNTI. The second DCI mayhave CRC-scrambled by a second RNTI. The first RNTI may be differentfrom the second RNTI. In the example, the first DCI may comprise atleast one of: one or more first SRS resource set index; and one or morefirst SRS power control command. The second DCI may comprise at leastone of: one or more second SRS resource set index; and one or moresecond SRS power control command. In an example, each of the one or moresecond SRS power control command may correspond to one UE, serving cell,or TRP. In response to receiving the first DCI triggering SRStransmission for uplink beam management, the wireless device maytransmit SRS with a transmission power based on one or more powercontrol parameter associated with the one or more first SRS powercontrol parameter set and a power control command in the first DCI. Inresponse to receiving the second DCI triggering SRS transmission for CSIacquisition, the wireless device may transmit SRS with a transmissionpower based on one or more power control parameter associated with theone or more second SRS power control parameter set and a power controlcommand in the second DCI.

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more RRC messagecomprising one or more parameters of SRS resource configurationcomprising one or more first SRS resource set and one or more second SRSresource set. One of the one or more first SRS resource set may compriseat least one of: bandwidth, frequency hopping, transmission comb andoffset, time domain resource allocation, frequency-domain positionbandwidth, and/or antenna ports. One of the one or more second SRSresource set may comprise at least one of: bandwidth, frequency hopping,transmission comb and offset, time domain resource allocation,frequency-domain position bandwidth, and/or antenna ports.

In an example, the one or more first SRS resource set may be used foruplink beam management. The one or more second SRS resource set may beused for CSI acquisition.

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more RRC messagecomprising one or more power control parameters of SRS transmission. Theone or more power control parameters may comprise one or more first SRSpower control parameter set and one or more second SRS power controlparameter set. One of the one or more first SRS power control parameterset may comprise at least one of: an SRS indication parameter indicatingwhether absolute power control adjustment or accumulated power controladjustment is enabled for SRS transmission; and one or more SRS powercontrol parameters. One of the one or more second SRS power controlparameter set may comprise at least one of: an SRS indication parameterindicating whether absolute power control adjustment may be used for SRStransmission or accumulated power control adjustment may be used for SRStransmission; and one or more SRS power control parameters.

In an example, the one or more first SRS power control parameter set maybe used for uplink beam management. The one or more second SRS powercontrol parameter set may be used for CSI acquisition.

In an example, a base station may transmit a DCI triggering SRStransmission for uplink beam management and/or CSI-acquisition. The DCImay comprise at least one of: one or more SRS resource set index; and/orone or more SRS power control command. In response to receiving the DCItriggering SRS transmission, the wireless device may transmit one ormore SRS by using one or more SRS resources associated with one of theone or more first SRS resource indicated by the one or more SRS resourceset index, if the one or more SRS resource set index indicates one ofthe one or more first SRS resource set. The wireless device may transmitone or more SRS by using one or more SRS resource associated with one ofthe one or more second SRS resource indicated by the one or more SRSresource set index, if the one or more SRS resource set index indicatesone of the one or more second SRS resource set. The wireless device maydetermine a transmission power fort the one or more SRS based on one ormore SRS power control parameters associated with one of the one or morefirst SRS power control parameter set, if the one or more SRS resourceset index indicates one of the one or more first SRS resource set. In anexample, the wireless device may determine the transmission power basedon one or more SRS power control parameters associated with one of theone or more second SRS power control parameter set, if the one or moreSRS resource set index indicates one of the one or more second SRSresource set.

In one example, a base station may transmit a DCI with the same DCIformat and CRC-scrambled by the same RNTI, to trigger SRS transmissionfor CSI acquisition, or uplink beam management. With one or more of theembodiments, the blind decoding complexity of PDCCH may be reduced at aUE receiver.

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more RRC messagecomprising one or more parameters of power control adjustment timing.The one or more parameters may comprise at least one of: one powercontrol adjustment timing for PUSCH (e.g., K_(PUSCH)); one power controladjustment timing for SRS for CSI acquisition (e.g., K_(SRS-CSI));and/or one power control adjustment timing for SRS for uplink beammanagement (e.g., K_(SRS-BM)).

In an example, K_(SRS-BM) for SRS transmission for uplink beammanagement may be configured shorter than K_(SRS-CSI) since uplink beammanagement may have tighter timing requirement than normal SRStransmission for uplink CSI acquisition. In an example, K_(SRS-BM) forSRS transmission for uplink beam management may be configured shorterthan KPUSCH since uplink beam management may have tighter timingrequirement than PUSCH transmission.

In an example, the power control adjustment time for K_(PUSCH),K_(SRS-CSI), and/or K_(SRS-BM), may be in unit of subframes, or slots,or symbols, with a numerology. The numerology may be a referencedownlink or uplink numerology (e.g., that used for PSS/SSS, or PBCH, orPDCCH, or PUCCH, PUSCH), or a configured numerology.

In an example, a base station may transmit a first DCI for PUSCHscheduling, to a wireless device. The one or more first DCI may compriseat least one of: one or more PUSCH resource allocation; and/or one ormore PUSCH power control command. In response to receiving the one ormore first DCI, the UE may transmit PUSCH with a transmission power. Thetransmission power may comprise at least a power control adjustment. Thewireless device may determine the power control adjustment of PUSCHtransmission (e.g., f_(c)(i)), in subframe i in serving cell c byf_(c)(i)=f_(c)(i)+δ_(PUSCH,c)(i-K_(PUSCH)), if the PUSCH indicationparameter associated with the one or more PUSCH power control parameterset indicates that the accumulated power control adjustment is employed(or enabled). The UE may determine the power control adjustment of PUSCHtransmission by f_(c)(i)=δ_(PUSCH,c)(i-K_(PUSCH)), if the PUSCHindication parameter associated with the one or more PUSCH power controlparameter set indicates that the absolute power control adjustment isemployed (or the accumulated power control adjustment is not enabled).In an example, δ_(PUSCH,c)(i-K_(PUSCH)) may be a power control valueindicated by the one or more PUSCH power control command in the firstDCI for serving cell c on subframe i-K_(PUSCH).

In an example, a base station may transmit a second DCI for SRStransmission for CSI acquisition, to a wireless device. The second DCImay comprise at least one of: one or more SRS resource set; and/or oneor more SRS power control command. In response to receiving the secondDCI, the wireless device may transmit SRS with a transmission power. Thetransmission power may comprise at least a power control adjustmentbased on the SRS indication parameter associated with the one or morepower control parameter set for CSI acquisition. The wireless device maydetermine the power control adjustment parameter of SRS transmission(e.g., f_(SRS)(i)) in subframe i in serving cell c byf_(SRS,c)(i)=f_(SRS,c)(i-1)+δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS-CSI)), if the SRSindication parameter associated with the one or more SRS power controlparameter set for CSI acquisition indicates that the accumulated powercontrol adjustment is employed (or enabled). The wireless device maydetermine the power control adjustment parameter of SRS transmission(e.g., f_(SRS)(i)) in subframe i in serving cell c byf_(SRS,c)(i)=δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS-CSI)), if the SRS indication parameterassociated with the one or more SRS power control parameter set for CSIacquisition indicates that the absolute power control adjustment isemployed (or the accumulated power control adjustment is not enabled).In an example, δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS-CSI)) may be a power control valueindicated in the second DCI for serving cell c on subframei-K_(SRS-CSI).

In an example, a base station may transmit a third DCI for SRStransmission for uplink beam management, to a wireless device. The thirdDCI may comprise at least one of: one or more SRS resource set; and/orone or more SRS power control command. In response to receiving thethird DCI, the wireless device may transmit SRS with a transmissionpower. The transmission power may comprise at least power controladjustment based on the SRS indication parameter associated with the oneor more power control parameter set for uplink beam management. Thewireless device may determine the power control adjustment parameter ofSRS transmission (e.g., f_(SRS)(i)) in subframe i in serving cell c, byf_(SRS,c)(i)=f_(SRS,c)(i-1)+δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS-BM)), if the SRSindication parameter associated with the one or more SRS power controlparameter set for uplink beam management indicates that the accumulatedpower control adjustment is employed (or enabled). The wireless devicemay determine the power control adjustment parameter of SRS transmission(e.g., f_(SRS)(i)) in subframe i in serving cell c byf_(SRS,c)(i)=δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS-BM)), if the SRS indication parameterassociated with the one or more SRS power control parameter set for theuplink beam management indicates that the absolute power controladjustment is employed (or the accumulated power control adjustment isnot enabled). In an example, δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS-BM)) may be a powercontrol value indicated in the third DCI for serving cell c on subframei-K_(SRS-BM).

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more RRC messagecomprising one or more parameters of power control command adjustmenttiming. The one or more parameters may comprise at least one of: onepower control adjustment timing for PUSCH (e.g., K_(PUSCH)); and/or Onepower control adjustment timing for SRS (e.g., K_(SRS)).

In an example, a wireless device may transmit one or more PUSCH with atransmission power comprising at least a power control adjustment. Apower control adjustment may depend on a power control value indicatedin a DCI received at K_(PUSCH) subframes before the current subframe.

In an example, a wireless device may transmit one or more SRS for CSIacquisition and/or uplink beam management with a transmission power anda power control adjustment. A power control adjustment may depend on apower control value indicated in a DCI received at least K_(SRS)subframes (or slots, or symbols) before the current subframe.

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more RRC messagecomprising at least one power control command application time (e.g.,K). In an example, a wireless device may transmit one or more PUSCH witha transmission power comprising at least a power control adjustment. Apower control adjustment may depend on a power control value indicatedin a DCI received at K subframes before the current subframe. In anexample, a UE may transmit one or more SRS for CSI acquisition and/oruplink beam management with a transmission power comprising at least apower control adjustment. A power control adjustment may depend on apower control value indicated in a DCI received at least K subframes (orslots, or symbols) before the current subframe.

In an example, the power control adjustment time for K_(PUSCH),K_(SRS-CSI), and/or K_(SRS-BM), may be a fixed value, without RRCconfiguration. In an example, one or more system parameter set (e.g.,numerology, FDD, or TDD configuration, and/or one or more systemparameter configuration) may be associated with a power controladjustment time.

In an example, a base station may transmit a first DCI for PUSCHscheduling, to a wireless device. The first DCI may comprise at leastone of: PUSCH resource allocation; one or more PUSCH power controlcommand; and/or one power control adjustment timing for PUSCH (e.g.,K_(PUSCH)). In response to receiving the first DCI, the wireless devicemay transmit PUSCH with a transmission power comprising at least a powercontrol adjustment. The power control adjustment may be based on thePUSCH indication parameter in the one or more PUSCH power controlparameter set. The wireless device may determine a power controladjustment of PUSCH transmission byf_(c)(i)=f_(c)(i)+δ_(PUSCH,c)(i-K_(PUSCH)), if the PUSCH indicationparameter in the one or more PUSCH power control parameter set indicatesthat the accumulated power control adjustment is employed (or enabled).The wireless device may determine the power control adjustment of PUSCHtransmission by f_(c)(i)=δ_(PUSCH,c)(i-K_(PUSCH)), if the PUSCHindication parameter in the one or more PUSCH power control parameterset indicates that the absolute power control adjustment is employed (orthe accumulated power control adjustment is not enabled). In an example,δ_(PUSCH,c)(i-K_(PUSCH)) may be a power control value indicated in thefirst DCI for serving cell c on subframe i-K_(PUSCH).

In an example, a base station may transmit a second DCI for SRStransmission for CSI acquisition, to a wireless device. The second DCImay comprise at least one of: one or more SRS resource set; one or moreSRS power control command; and/or one power control adjustment timingfor SRS for CSI acquisition (e.g., K_(SRS-CSI)). In response toreceiving the second DCI, the wireless device may transmit SRS with atransmission power comprising at least a power control adjustment. Thepower control adjustment may be based on the SRS indication parameter inthe one or more SRS power control parameter set for CSI acquisition. Thewireless device may determine a power control adjustment of SRStransmission by f_(SRS,c)(i)=f_(SRS,c)(i-1)+δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS-CSI)), ifthe SRS indication parameter in the one or more SRS power controlparameter set indicates that the accumulated power control adjustment isemployed (or enabled). The wireless device may determine a power controladjustment of SRS transmission by f_(SRS,c)(i)=δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS-CSI)),if the SRS indication parameter in the one or more SRS power controlparameter set indicates that the absolute power control adjustment isemployed (or the accumulated power control adjustment is not enabled).In an example, δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS-CSI)) may be a power control valueindicated in the second DCI for serving cell c on subframei-K_(SRS-CSI).

In an example, a base station may transmit a third DCI for SRStransmission for uplink beam management, to a wireless device. The thirdDCI may comprise at least one of: one or more SRS resource set; one ormore SRS power control command; and/or one power control adjustmenttiming for SRS for uplink beam management (e.g., K_(SRS-BM)). Inresponse to receiving the third DCI, the wireless device may transmitSRS with a transmission power comprising at least a power controladjustment. A power control adjustment may be based on the SRSindication parameter in the one or more SRS power control parameter setfor uplink beam management. The wireless device may determine a powercontrol adjustment of SRS transmission byf_(SRS,c)(i)=f_(SRS,c)(i-1)+δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS-BM)), if the SRSindication parameter in the one or more SRS power control parameter setindicates that the accumulated power control adjustment is employed (orenabled). The wireless device may determine the power control adjustmentparameter of SRS transmission (e.g., f_(SRS)(i)) in subframe i inserving cell c by f_(SRS,c)(i)=δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS-BM)), if the SRSindication parameter in the one or more SRS power control parameter setindicates that the absolute power control adjustment is employed (or theaccumulated power control is not enabled). In an example,δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS-BM)) may be a power control value indicated in thethird DCI for serving cell c on subframe i-K_(SRS-BM).

In an example, a base station may transmit a first DCI for PUSCHscheduling to a wireless device. The first DCI may comprise at least oneof: PUSCH resource allocation; one or more PUSCH power control command;and/or one power control adjustment timing for PUSCH (e.g., K_(PUSCH)).In response to receiving the first DCI, the wireless device may transmitPUSCH with a transmission power comprising at least a power controladjustment. The power control adjustment may be based on the PUSCHindication parameter in the one or more PUSCH power control parameterset. The wireless device may determine a power control adjustment ofPUSCH transmission by f_(c)(i)=f_(c)(i)+δ_(PUSCH,c)(i-K_(PUSCH)), if thePUSCH indication parameter in the one or more PUSCH power controlparameter set indicates that the accumulated power control adjustment isemployed (or enabled). The wireless device may determine a power controladjustment of PUSCH transmission by f_(c)(i)=δ_(PUSCH,c)(i-K_(PUSCH)),if the PUSCH indication parameter in the one or more PUSCH power controlparameter set indicates that the absolute power control adjustment isemployed (or the accumulated power control adjustment is not enabled).In an example, δ_(PUSCH,c)(i-K_(PUSCH)) may be a a power control valueindicated in the first DCI for serving cell c on subframe i-K_(PUSCH).

In an example, a base station may transmit a second DCI for SRStransmission for CSI acquisition or uplink beam management, to awireless device. The second DCI may comprise at least one of: one ormore SRS resource set, one or more SRS power control command, one powercontrol adjustment timing for SRS (e.g., K_(SRS)). In response toreceiving the second DCI, the wireless device may transmit SRS with atransmission power comprising at least a power control adjustment. Apower control adjustment may be based on the SRS indication parameter inone or more SRS power control parameter set. The wireless device maydetermine a power control adjustment of SRS transmission byf_(SRS,c)(i)=f_(SRS,c)(i-1)+δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS)), if the SRS indicationparameter in the one or more SRS power control parameter set indicatesthat the accumulated power control adjustment is employed (or enabled).The wireless device may determine a power control adjustment of SRStransmission by f_(SRS,c)(i)=δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS)), if the SRS indicationparameter in the one or more SRS power control parameter set indicatesthat the absolute power control adjustment is employed (or theaccumulated power control adjustment is not enabled). In an example,δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS)) may be a power control value indicated in thesecond DCI for serving cell c on subframe i-K_(SRS).

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more RRC messagecomprising one or more parameters of SRS resource configuration. The oneor more parameters may comprise one or more SRS resource set comprisingat least one of: bandwidth, frequency hopping, transmission comb andoffset, time domain resource allocation, frequency-domain positionbandwidth, and/or antenna ports. The base station may transmit one ormore RRC message comprising one or more power control parameters of SRStransmission. The one or more power control parameters may comprise atleast one of: an SRS indication parameter, indicating whether absolutepower control adjustment or accumulated power control adjustment may beused for SRS transmission; and one or more SRS power control parameters.

In an example, a base station may transmit a DCI triggering SRStransmission for CSI acquisition or uplink beam management, to awireless device. The DCI may comprise at least one of: one or more SRSresource set index, one or more SRS power control command. In responseto receiving the DCI, the wireless device may transmit the one or moreSRS by using one or more SRS resource associated with one of the one ormore SRS resource set indicated by the one or more SRS resource setindex (e.g., j) in subframe i for serving cell c with a transmit powercomprising at least a power control adjustment determined by:P_(SRS)(i,j)=min{P_(CMAX,c)(i,m), 10log₁₀(M_(SRS,c,j))+P_(O_SRS,c)(m)+α_(SRS,c)(m)·PL_(c)+f_(SRS,c)(i)}[dBm].In an example, P_(SRS)(i,j) may be a calculated SRS transmission powerfor SRS resource set j for serving cell c in subframe i. P_(CMAX,c)(i,m)may be a configured wireless device transmit power in subframe i for SRStransmission for serving cell c in the one or more RRC signaling.P_(CMAX,c)(i,m) may be a transmission power associated with one or moreSRS power control parameters in the one or more SRS power controlparameter set m. In an example, m=0 may correspond to a periodic SRStransmission with a first one of the one or more SRS power controlparameter set. m=1 may correspond to an aperioidic SRS transmission forCSI acquisition with a second one of the one or more SRS power controlparameter set. m=2 may correspond to an aperiodic SRS transmission foruplink beam management with a third one of the one or more SRS powercontrol parameter set. M_(SRS,c,j) may be a bandwidth of the SRStransmission for SRS resource set j in subframe i for serving cell cexpressed in number of resource blocks configured in the one or more RRCsignaling. α_(SRS,c)(m) may be a value of alpha-SRS configured in theone or more RRC signaling for serving cell c. α_(SRS,c)(m) may be thealpha-SRS associated with one or more SRS power control parameters inthe one or more SRS power control parameter set m. In an example, m=0may correspond to a periodic SRS transmission with a first one of theone or more SRS power control parameter set. m=1 may correspond to anaperiodic SRS transmission for CSI acquisition with a second one of theone or more SRS power control parameter set. m=2 may correspond to anaperiodic SRS transmission for uplink beam management with a third oneof the one or more SRS power control parameter set. PL_(c) may be adownlink path loss value calculated by the wireless device for servingcell c, P_(O_SRS,c)(m) may be a target receiving power parameter for SRStransmission. P_(O_SRS,c)(m) may be the target receiving powerassociated with one or more SRS power control parameters in the one ormore SRS power control parameter set m. In an example, m=0 maycorrespond to a periodic SRS transmission with a first one of the one ormore SRS power control parameter set. m=1 may correspond to anaperioidic SRS transmission for CSI acquisition with a second one of theone or more SRS power control parameter set. m=2 may correspond to anaperiodic SRS transmission for uplink beam management with a third oneof the one or more SRS power control parameter set. The wireless devicemay determine f_(SRS,c)(i) byf_(SRS,c)(i)=f_(SRS,c)(i-1)+δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS)), if the the SRSindication parameter in the one or more SRS power control parameter setindicates that the accumulated power control adjustment is employed (orenabled). The wireless device may determine f_(SRS,c)(i) byf_(SRS,c)(i)=δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS)), if the the SRS indication parameterin the one or more SRS power control parameter set indicates that theabsolute power control adjustment is employed (or the accumulated powercontrol adjustment is not enabled). In an example, δ_(SRS,c)(i-K_(SRS))may be a power control value indicated in a second DCI for serving cellc on subframe K_(SRS). In an example, K_(SRS) is configured in the oneor more RRC, or in a DCI.

In an example, a wireless device may determine the transmission powerand power control adjustment based on one or more embodiment, for one ormore frame structure (e.g., without PUSCH/PUCCH transmission and TDD).

In an example, a base station may transmit one or more RRC messagecomprising one or more parameters of SRS resource configuration. The oneor more parameters may comprise at least one or more of SRS resource setcomprising at least one of: bandwidth; frequency hopping; transmissioncomb and offset; time domain resource allocation; frequency-domainposition bandwidth; and/or antenna ports. The base station may transmitone or more RRC message comprising one or more power control parametersof PUSCH transmission. The one or more power control parameters maycomprise one or more PUSCH power control parameter set. One PUSCH powercontrol parameter set may comprise at least one of: a PUSCH indicationparameter indicating whether absolute power control adjustment oraccumulated power control adjustment may be used for PUSCH transmission;and/or one or more PUSCH power control parameters.

In an example, a base station may transmit a DCI scheduling PUSCHtransmission, to a wireless device. The DCI may comprise at least oneof: PUSCH Resource information; or one or more SRS resource set index;and/or One or more TPC for PUSCH. In response to receiving the DCI, thewireless device may transmit the one or more SRS using one or more SRSresource associated with the one or more SRS resource set index (e.g.,j) in subframe i for cell c with a transmit power comprising at least apower control adjustment determined by:P_(SRS,c)(i,j)=min{P_(CMAX,c)(i,m),P_(SRS_OFFSET,c)(m)+10log₁₀(M_(SRS,c,j))+P_(O_PUSCH,c)(n)+α_(c)(n)·PL_(c)+f_(c)(i)}[dB m], forsome frame structure (e.g., FDD). In an example, P_(SRS)(i,j) may be acalculated SRS transmission power for SRS resource set j for servingcell c in subframe i. P_(CMAX,c)(i,m) may be a configured wirelessdevice transmit power in subframe i for SRS transmission for servingcell c in the one or more RRC signaling. P_(CMAX,c)(i,m) may be atransmission power associated with one or more SRS power controlparameters in the one or more SRS power control parameter set m. In anexample, m=0 may correspond to a periodic SRS transmission with a firstone of the one or more SRS power control parameter set. m=1 maycorrespond to an aperiodic SRS transmission for CSI acquisition with asecond one of the one or more SRS power control parameter set. m=2 maycorrespond to an aperiodic SRS transmission for uplink beam managementwith a third one of the one or more SRS power control parameter set.M_(SRS,c,j) may be a bandwidth of the SRS transmission for SRS resourceset j in subframe i for serving cell c expressed in number of resourceblocks configured in the one or more RRC signaling. P_(SRS_OFFSET,c)(m)may be SRS power offset for SRS transmission configured by the one ormore RRC signaling. P_(SRS_OFFSET,c)(m) may be the SRS power offsetassociated with one or more SRS power control parameters in the one ormore SRS power control parameter set m. In an example, m=0 maycorrespond to a periodic SRS transmission with a first one of the one ormore SRS power control parameter set. m=1 may correspond to an aperiodicSRS transmission for CSI acquisition with a second one of the one ormore SRS power control parameter set. m=2 may correspond to an aperiodicSRS transmission for uplink beam management with a third one of the oneor more SRS power control parameter set. PL_(c) may be a downlink pathloss value calculated by the wireless device for serving cell c.P_(O_PUSCH,c)(n) and a_(c)(n) may be configured in the one or more RRCsignaling. P_(O_PUSCH,c)(n) and a_(c)(n) may be a target receiving powerand a power compensation factor associated with one or more PUSCH powercontrol parameter set n. In an example, n=0 may correspond to a PUSCHSPS transmission with a first one of the one or more PUSCH power controlparameter set. n=1 may correspond to a dynamic PUSCH transmission with asecond one of the one or more PUSCH power control parameter set. n=2 maycorrespond to a PUSCH corresponding to a random access response grantwith a third one of the one or more PUSCH power control parameter set.In an example, n may be a fixed value (e.g., n=1). f_(c)(i) may be acurrent PUSCH power control adjustment state for serving cell c. Thewireless device may determine f_(c)(i) byf_(c)(i)=f_(c)(i)+δ_(PUSCH,c)(i-K_(PUSCH)), if the PUSCH indicationparameter in the one or more PUSCH power control parameter set indicatesthat the accumulated power control adjustment is employed (or enabled).The wireless device may determine f_(c)(i) byf_(c)(i)=δ_(PUSCH,c)(i-K_(PUSCH)), if the PUSCH indication parameter inthe one or more PUSCH power control parameter set indicates that theabsolute power control adjustment is employed (or the accumulated powercontrol adjustment is not enabled, or is disabled). In an example,δ_(PUSCH,c)(i-K_(PUSCH)) may be a power control value indicated in theDCI for serving cell c on subframe i-K_(PUSCH). K_(PUSCH) may beconfigured in the one or more RRC messages, or in the DCI.

In an example, a wireless device may determine the transmission powerand power control adjustment based on one or more embodiment, for one ormore frame structure (e.g., FDD, and/or TDD).

In an example, a wireless device may receive from a base station atleast one RRC message comprising one or more parameters indicating atleast one of: at least one SRS power configuration; at least one PUSCHpower configuration; and/or at least one SRS resource configuration. Theat least one SRS power configuration may comprise at least: a SRSindication parameter indicating where accumulated power adjustment forSRS transmission is enabled or not; allowable maximum transmissionpower; target received power; power compensation factor; and/or one ormore power offsets. The at least one PUSCH power configuration maycomprise at least: a PUSCH indication parameter indicating whereaccumulated power adjustment for PUSCH transmission is enabled or not;allowable maximum transmission power; target received power; powercompensation factor; and/or one or more power offsets. The at least oneSRS resource configuration may comprise at least: one or more SRS radioresource parameters.

In an example, a wireless device may receive at least one first DCIcomprising at least one of: one or more SRS resource index; and/or oneor more SRS power control command. The wireless device may transmit oneor more SRS with a transmission power by using one or more SRS resourceindicated in the one or more SRS resource index. A wireless device maydetermine a transmission power of SRS transmission based on one or SRSpower control parameters indicated in the one or more SRS power controlconfiguration. The transmission power may comprise at least a powercontrol adjustment based on the SRS indication parameter in the one ormore SRS power configuration.

In an example, a wireless device may receive at least one second DCIcomprising at least one of: one or more PUSCH resource configuration;one or more PUSCH power control command. The wireless device maytransmit one or more PUSCH with a transmission power by using one ormore PUSCH resource indicated in the one or more PUSCH resourceconfiguration. A wireless device may determine a transmission power ofPUSCH transmission based on one or PUSCH power control parametersindicated in the one or more PUSCH power control configuration. Thetransmission power may comprise at least a power control adjustmentbased on the PUSCH indication parameter in the one or more PUSCH powerconfiguration.

SRS of Uplink Beam Management Overlapping with Other UplinkChannels/Signals

In an example, a wireless device (or a UE) may transmit a first SRS foruplink beam management with a first transmission power via a first cell.The wireless device may transmit a second SRS for CSI acquisition with asecond transmission power via a second cell. The wireless device maytransmit a first PRACH preamble with a third transmission power via afirst RACH resource for a downlink beam failure recovery via a thirdcell. The wireless device may transmit a second PRACH preamble with afourth transmission power via a second RACH resource for uplinksynchronization via a fourth cell. In an example, the transmission ofthe first SRS may be overlapped in time with at least one of: the secondSRS, the first PRACH preamble, or the second PRACH preamble. Whentransmission overlapping occurs, existing LTE/LTE_A technologies may notprovide methods on how to calculate transmission power for thesesignals. Existing LTE/LTE_A technologies may result in a failure ofuplink beam management when overlapped transmission occurs. ExistingLTE/LTE_A technologies may result in delay of the uplink beam managementwhen overlapped transmission occurs. Example embodiments may providemethods to improve the delay of the uplink beam management.

In an example, a gNB may transmit to a wireless device, one or moremessages (e.g., RRC) comprising configuration parameters of at least oneSRS, for one or multiple cells. The one or multiple cells may be groupedinto one or multiple cell groups. The configuration parameters for theat least one SRS may comprise at least one of: a SRS bandwidth, SRSnumerologies, density in frequency domain (e.g., comb levels) and/or intime domain (including multi-symbol SRS transmissions), partial bandsize and full band size. The at least one SRS may be associated with aSRS resource index (SRI). The gNB may transmit to the wireless device,one or more messages (e.g., RRC) comprising configuration parameters foran uplink beam management procedure in a first cell, or a first cell ofa first cell group. The configuration parameters for the uplink beammanagement procedure may comprise at least one of: at least one uplinkRS type (e.g., SRS, uplink DMRS, PRACH); RS configuration (e.g., one ormultiple SRS resources, each associated with a SRI); QCL parameters(e.g., an indictor indicating a SRS is QCLed with DMRS of PUCCH/PUSCH ornot); beam sweeping parameters (e.g., beam sweeping duration, beamrotating or beam kept fixed), SRS power control parameters.

In an example, the gNB may transmit to the wireless device, a first DCIand/or MAC CE to trigger the wireless device for performing an uplinkbeam management procedure via a first cell, or via a first cell of afirst cell group. The first DCI and/or MAC CE may comprise at least oneof: at least one SRS configuration associated with at least one SRI, SRSpower control command. The at least one SRS configuration may beselected from one or multiple SRS configuration in the one or more RRCmessages.

In an example, the gNB may transmit to the wireless device, a secondcontrol information (e.g., DCI) to trigger the wireless device fortransmitting an aperiodic SRS transmission via the first cell, or asecond cell, or a second cell of a second cell group. The second DCI maycomprise at least one of: at least one SRS configuration associated withat least one SRI; and SRS power control command. The at least one SRSconfiguration may be selected from one or multiple SRS configuration inthe one or more RRC messages.

In an example, the wireless device may transmit at least a first SRS forthe uplink beam management via the first cell, or the first cell of thefirst cell group, in response to the first DCI and/or the MAC CEtriggering performing an uplink beam management procedure, with a firsttransmission power. The wireless device may determine the firsttransmission power of the at least first SRS based on at least one of:the SRS configuration parameters, the SRS power control command.

In an example, the wireless device may schedule a transmission of atleast a second SRS in response to the second DCI, with a secondtransmission power. The wireless device may determine the secondtransmission power of the at least second SRS based on one of the SRSconfiguration parameters, the SRS power control command.

In an example, if a configured/scheduled transmission of the at leastsecond SRS (e.g., aperiodic SRS, or periodic SRS), via the first cell,or the second cell, or the second cell of the second cell group,overlaps in time with the transmission of the at least first SRS of theuplink beam management and if a total transmission power exceeds a firstallowable power value, the wireless device may adjust a transmit powerof the configured/scheduled transmission of the at least second SRS, ordrop the configured/scheduled transmission of the at least second SRS.The wireless device may adjust the transmission power of thetransmission of the at least second SRS such that a total transmissionpower of the at least first SRS and the at least second SRS does notexceed the first allowable power value. The at least second SRS may bescheduled in aperiodic transmission, triggered by the second DCI, or beconfigured in periodic transmission by the RRC. The first allowablepower value may be a value indicated by the gNB in the one or more RRCmessages. The total transmission power may comprise the firsttransmission power of the at least one first SRS of the uplink beammanagement, and the second transmission power of theconfigured/scheduled the at least second SRS.

In the example, example embodiment may assign a higher priority to atransmission power of the at least first SRS (for uplink beammanagement) compared with a transmission power of the at least secondSRS (for CSI acquisition). Example embodiment may improve latency foruplink beam management, when SRS transmission overlapping occurs.

In an example, a wireless device may transmit at least a first SRS foruplink beam management via a first cell, or a first cell of a first cellgroup, in response to a first DCI and/or the MAC CE triggering theuplink beam management, with a first transmission power. The wirelessdevice may determine a first transmission power of the at least firstSRS based on at least one of: SRS configuration parameters, SRS powercontrol command.

In an example, the wireless device may schedule a transmission of anuplink control channel (e.g., PUCCH) via the first cell, or a secondcell, or a third cell of a second cell group. Information transmittedvia the uplink control channel may comprise an uplink controlinformation without ACK/NACK (e.g., PUCCH with CQI). The scheduledtransmission of the uplink control channel may overlap in time with thetransmission of the at least first SRS of the uplink beam management. Inan example, the wireless device may adjust a transmit power of theuplink control channel transmission or drop the transmission of theuplink control channel, if a total transmission power exceeds a firstallowable power value. The wireless device may adjust the transmissionpower of the transmission of the uplink control channel such that atotal transmission power of the at least first SRS and the uplinkcontrol channel does not exceed the first allowable power value. Thetotal transmission power may comprise a first transmission power of theat least first SRS of the uplink beam management, and a secondtransmission power of the uplink control channel. The first allowablepower value may be a value indicated by the gNB in the one or more RRCmessages. In the example, example embodiment may assign a higherpriority to a transmission power of the SRS compared with a transmissionpower of the uplink control channel without ACK/NACK. Since SRStransmission for uplink beam management is required for changing theuplink beam direction, it may be more urgent than normal PUCCHtransmission without ACK/NACK.

In an example, a gNB may further transmit to a wireless device, one ormore messages (e.g., RRC) comprising configuration parameters for adownlink beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure. The configurationparameters for the BFR procedure may comprise at least one of: at leastone RS type (e.g., SS block, or CSI-RS, or DMRS of PBCH); RSconfiguration (e.g., CSI-RS resource configuration); beam failurerecovery request channel configuration (e.g., PRACH preamble,time/frequency, hopping, power control command); measurement setting(e.g., CSI, RSRP, RSRQ); reporting setting (e.g., reporting type (e.g.,CSI reporting or beam management reporting or beam failure reporting),reporting quantity (e.g., RSRP, RSRQ, or CSI), reporting timing (e.g.,aperiodic, UE-triggered) and reporting trigger parameter (e.g., timer,one or more thresholds)).

In an example, a gNB may transmit a first DCI and/or MAC CE to triggerthe wireless device for performing an uplink beam management procedure.The first DCI and/or MAC CE may comprise at least one of: at least oneSRS configuration, SRS power control command. The at least one SRSconfiguration may be selected from one or multiple SRS configuration inthe one or more RRC messages. The wireless device may transmit at leasta first SRS for the uplink beam management in response to the first DCIand/or the MAC CE triggering performing an uplink beam managementprocedure, with a first transmission power. The wireless device maydetermine the first transmission power of SRS based on at least one of:the SRS configuration parameters, the SRS power control command.

In an example, the wireless device may detect at least a beam failurebased on the configuration parameters for the BFR procedure. In responseto detecting the at least beam failure, the wireless device may transmita preamble to the gNB with a second transmission power. The wirelessdevice may determine the second transmission power of the preamble basedon the configuration parameters for the BFR procedure.

In an example, the wireless device may initiate a random accessprocedure autonomously. The wireless device may initiate the randomaccess procedure in response to receiving a DCI comprising a PDCCHorder. The wireless device may transmit the preamble to the gNB with thesecond transmission power. The wireless device may determine the secondtransmission power of the preamble based on the configuration parametersof the random access procedure.

In an example, the transmission of the preamble may overlap in time withthe transmission of the at least first SRS of the uplink beammanagement. The wireless device may adjust the second transmission powerof the preamble transmission, or drop the transmission of the preamble,if a total transmission power exceeds a first allowable power value. Thewireless device may adjust the second transmission power of the preambletransmission such that a total transmission power of the preambletransmission and the at least first SRS transmission does not exceed thefirst allowable power value. The total transmission power may comprisethe first transmission power of the at least first SRS of the uplinkbeam management, and the second transmission power of the preamble. Thefirst allowable power value may be a value indicated by the gNB in theone or more RRC messages.

In an example, the wireless device may assign a higher priority to atransmission power of the SRS for an uplink beam management comparedwith a transmission power of the preamble for a downlink beam failurerecovery.

In an example, the wireless device may assign a higher priority to atransmission power of the preamble for a downlink beam failure recoverycompared with a transmission power of the SRS for an uplink beammanagement. Assigning a higher priority to the transmission power of thepreamble may comprise adjusting the transmission power of the SRS forthe uplink beam management, when the transmission of the preambleoverlaps in time with the transmission of the SRS, and if a totaltransmission power of the transmission of the preamble and thetransmission of the SRS exceeds the first allowable power value.

In an example, the priority of power allocation for SRS for an uplinkbeam management and preamble for a downlink beam failure recovery, maybe predefined, or configured in one or more RRC messages.

In an example, a wireless device may receive from a base station, one ormore radio resource control (RRC) messages comprising: firstconfiguration parameters of at least one sounding reference signal (SRS)of a first cell and a second cell; and second configuration parametersfor an uplink beam management procedure for the first cell. The wirelessdevice may receive a downlink control information initiating the uplinkbeam management procedure for the first cell. The wireless device maytransmit at least one first SRS for the uplink beam management via thefirst cell. The wireless device may adjust a transmit power of aconfigured/scheduled transmission of a second SRS or drop theconfigured/scheduled transmission of the second SRS, if theconfigured/scheduled transmission of the second SRS via the second celloverlaps in time with the transmission of the at least one first SRS ofthe uplink beam management and if a total transmission power exceeds afirst allowable power value. In an example, the wireless device mayassign a higher priority to a transmission power of the first SRScompared with a transmission power of the second SRS.

Uplink Beam Failure Recovery

A wireless device may transmit SRSs for performing an uplink beammanagement procedure. The wireless device may perform the uplink beammanagement procedure in response to receiving a DCI (or a MAC CE)initiating the uplink beam management procedure. In an example, a gNBmay transmit the DCI (or the MAC CE) to the wireless device when the gNBobserves a channel quality of a wireless channel from the wirelessdevice to the gNB becomes worse. The gNB may trigger the wireless deviceto perform the uplink beam management in order to adjust uplinktransmission beam. In response to receiving SRSs for the uplink beammanagement, the gNB may select a best beam associated with one SRS fromthe SRSs. The one SRS may be selected based on RSRP, or RSRQ, or SINR.In an example, the one SRS may be one SRS with a best RSRP (orRSRQ/SINR) value among the SRSs. When the gNB selects the best beam (orthe one SRS), the gNB may transmit a second DCI indicating the best beam(or the one SRS) to the wireless device. In response to receiving thesecond DCI, the wireless device may adjust transmission parametersaccording to the second DCI.

In an example, the wireless device may miss-detect the second DCI. ThegNB may not select a best one beam (or a SRS) among the SRSs transmittedfrom the wireless device. The gNB may not transmit the second DCI inresponse to not selecting the best one beam. When the wireless devicemiss-detects the second DCI, an uplink beam failure event occurs. Inresponse to the uplink beam failure event, the wireless device may notcontinue uplink transmission due to uplink beam being not indicated.FIG. 23 shows an example of the uplink beam failure event. A basestation 2302 (or a gNB) may transmit to a wireless device 2301, a firstDCI indicating an uplink beam management. The first DCI may comprisefields indicating one or more SRSs. In response to receiving the firstDCI, the wireless device 2301 may transmit the one or more SRSs based onconfiguration parameters of the one or more SRSs. The wireless device2301 may transmit the one or more SRSs on different transmission beams.In an example, the base station 2302 may receive the one or more SRSs.The base station 2302 may select a best SRS from the one or more SRSsbased on one or more criterion. The base station 2302 may transmit asecond DCI to the wireless device 2301 in response to selecting the bestSRS. The second DCI may comprise a SRS index indicating the best SRS. Inan example, the wireless device 2301 may miss-detect the second DCI,e.g., due to downlink beam failure, or downlink control channel beingnot detectable. When the wireless device 2301 miss-detects the secondDCI, an uplink beam failure occurs. When the uplink beam failure occurs,the communication between the wireless device 2301 and the base station2302 may be broken.

Existing technologies may not provide solutions for the uplink beamfailure. Existing technologies may result in long delay for uplink beammanagement, since the gNB may take long time to identify the wirelessdevice does not receive the second DCI and may repeat the uplink beammanagement. Example embodiments may provide methods of an uplink beamfailure recovery when uplink beam failure occurs. The uplink beamfailure recovery may comprise transmitting a second signal in responseto not receiving the second DCI and/or a timer expiry. The uplink beamfailure recovery may improve latency of uplink beam management.

In an example, a gNB may transmit one or more messages comprisingconfiguration parameters of an uplink beam management procedure. Theparameters may comprise at least one of: RS type (e.g., SRS, or DMRS,PRACH); RS configuration (e.g., one or multiple SRS resources, eachassociated with a SRI); QCL parameters (e.g., an indicator indicatingwhether a SRS resource is QCLed with DMRS of PUCCH/PUSCH or not); and/ora timer value of a timer (or time window). The one or more messages maybe one or more RRC messages, and/or one or more MAC layer messages.

In an example, a gNB 2302 may transmit a first control information(e.g., DCI) indicating a wireless device 2301 to perform an uplink beammanagement procedure. When performing the uplink beam managementprocedure, the wireless device may transmit one or more SRS on differenttransmit beams (e.g., uplink beam sweeping), based on the SRSparameters, configured in the one or more messages, and/or the firstDCI. The gNB may keep the receiving beam unchanged during the uplinkbeam management procedure.

In an example, when a gNB determines one or more uplink transmit beamsby some selection criteria, the gNB may transmit a second controlinformation (e.g., DCI) indicating the one or more uplink transmitbeams. The selection criteria may be based on measurements of RSRP,RSRQ, and/or CSI over the one or more SRS. In response to receiving thesecond DCI, the wireless device may adjust transmission parameters (orbeams) according to the second DCI. The wireless device may transmitPUCCH/PUSCH by using the adjusted transmission parameters (or beams).

In an example, the first DCI may comprise at least configurationparameters of the second DCI. The configuration parameters of the secondDCI may comprise at least one of: an indicator whether the second DCI ispresent or not, a time value of a time window (e.g., when the second DCIwill be present after transmitting the first DCI), format of the secondDCI if present, aggregation level, and/or resource configuration of aPDCCH for transmitting the second DCI if present.

In an example, when the indicator in the first DCI indicates the secondDCI will not be present, the wireless device may not be required tomonitor the PDCCH for detecting the second DCI. When the indicator inthe first DCI indicates the second DCI will be present within the timewindow, the wireless device may monitor the PDCCH to detect the secondDCI within the time window. If the wireless device detects the secondDCI, the wireless device may transmit data packet using an uplinktransmit beam (associated with a SRS) indicated by the second DCI.

In an example, the first DCI may indicate whether the second DCI ispresent or not when uplink beam management is triggered. Based on thefirst DCI, a wireless device may determine whether to blind decode thesecond DCI. The two-DCI structure may reduce power consumption of blinddecoding for uplink beam management.

In an example, a wireless device may transmit a second signal (e.g.,preamble) in response to not detecting the second DCI. FIG. 24 shows anexample of the embodiment. A base station 2402 (or a gNB) may transmitto a wireless device 2401, one or more messages (e.g., RRC messages)comprising configuration parameters of an uplink beam managementprocedure. The parameters may comprise at least one of: RS type (e.g.,SRS, DMRS, and/or PRACH); RS configuration (e.g., one or multiple SRSresources, each associated with a SRI); QCL parameters (e.g., anindicator indicating whether a SRS resource is QCLed with DMRS ofPUCCH/PUSCH or not); one or more PRACH resource for uplink beammanagement reporting (e.g., uplink beam failure recovery) and/or a timervalue of a timer. The one or more messages may be one or more RRCmessages and/or one or more MAC CEs.

In an example, the gNB 2402 may transmit a first control information(e.g., DCI) with one or more configuration parameters of an uplink beammanagement procedure. The one or more configuration parameters maycomprise at least one of: one or more SRIs; one or more PRACH resource(e.g., preamble, time/frequency resource configuration for uplink beammanagement reporting); power control command for the one or more PRACHtransmission and/or a timer or time window.

In an example, the wireless device 2401 may transmit one or more SRS ondifferent transmit beams (e.g., uplink beam sweeping) in response toreceiving the first DCI indicating performing an uplink beam management.The wireless device 2401 may start the timer based on the timer value inresponse to transmitting the one or more SRS.

In an example, when the gNB 2402 determines one or more uplink transmitbeams by some selection criteria, the gNB 2402 may transmit a secondcontrol information (e.g., DCI) indicating the one or more uplinktransmit beams. The selection criteria may be based on measurements ofRSRP, RSRQ, and/or CSI over the SRS. The wireless device 2401 may stopthe timer in response to detecting the second DCI.

In an example, an uplink beam failure may occur when the wireless device2401 doesn't detect the second DCI indicating one or more uplinktransmit beams when the timer is running. The UE may perform an uplinkbeam failure recovery procedure by transmitting a preamble based on oneof the one or more PRACH resources. The one or more PRACH resources(e.g., preamble, time/frequency resource configuration) may be dedicatedfor the uplink beam failure recovery procedure, e.g., different from thePRACH resource for random access or downlink beam failure recoveryprocedure. In an example, the PRACH resource for the uplink beam failurerecovery may be shared with the PRACH resource for reporting a downlinkbeam failure.

In an example, when the gNB receives the preamble transmitted by the UE,the gNB may transmit one or more third DCI to the UE indicating a secondround of uplink beam management. The one or more third DCI may compriseconfiguration parameters of the second round of uplink beam management.The configuration parameters may be different from that in the one ormore first DCI.

In an example, a wireless device may transmit a second signal/channel(e.g., a PUCCH) in response to not detecting the second DCI. In anexample, a gNB may transmit one or more messages comprisingconfiguration parameters of an uplink beam management procedure, to awireless device. The parameters may comprise at least one of: RS type(e.g., SRS, DMRS, and/or PRACH); RS configuration (e.g., one or multipleSRS resources, each associated with a SRI; QCL parameters (e.g., SRSQCLed or not QCLed with DMRS of PUCCH/PUSCH); one or more PUCCH resourcefor uplink beam management reporting (e.g., uplink beam failurerecovery) and/or a timer value of a timer. The one or more messages maybe one or more RRC messages, and/or one or more MAC layer messages(e.g., MAC CE).

In an example, the gNB may transmit a first control information (e.g.,DCI) with one or more configuration parameters of an uplink beammanagement procedure, to a wireless device. The one or moreconfiguration parameters may comprise at least one of: one or more SRIs;one or more PUCCH resource for uplink beam management reporting (e.g.,uplink beam failure recovery); power control command for the one or morePUCCH transmission and/or a timer or time window.

In an example, a wireless device may transmit one or more SRS ondifferent transmit beams (e.g., uplink beam sweeping) when receiving thefirst DCI indicating performing an uplink beam management. The wirelessdevice may start the timer in response to transmitting the one or moreSRS.

In an example, a gNB may transmit to a wireless device, a second controlinformation (e.g., DCI) indicating the one or more uplink transmitbeams, e.g., when the gNB determines one or more uplink transmit beamsby some selection criteria. The selection criteria may be based onmeasurements of RSRP, RSRQ, and/or CSI over the one or more SRSs. Thewireless device may stop the timer in response to detecting the secondDCI.

In an example, an uplink beam failure may occur when the wireless devicedoesn't detect the second DCI when the timer is running. The wirelessdevice may perform an uplink beam failure recovery procedure bytransmitting a signal via one of the one or more PUCCH resource. The oneor more PUCCH resource may be dedicated for the uplink beam failurerecovery, e.g., different from the PUCCH resource for SR, ACK/NACKand/or CQI feedback. In an example, the PUCCH resource for the uplinkbeam failure recovery may be shared with the PUCCH resource for SR,ACK/NACK and/or CQI feedback.

In an example, in response to receiving the PUCCH transmitted by awireless device, for an uplink beam failure recovery, the gNB maytransmit a third DCI to the wireless device indicating a second round ofuplink beam management. The third DCI may comprise configurationparameters of the second round of uplink beam management. Theconfiguration parameters may be different from that in the first DCI.

In an example, a wireless device may receive from a base station, atleast one radio resource control message comprising one or moreparameters for an uplink beam management procedure, wherein the one ormore parameters indicate at least one of the following: at least one SRSconfiguration, wherein the at least one SRS configuration comprises anidentifier of the at least one SRS configuration; and a first timervalue of a first timer. The wireless device may receive at least onefirst DCI indicating activation of the uplink beam management procedure,wherein the at least one first DCI comprises at least one of: oneidentifier corresponding to one of the at least SRS configuration; onepreamble identifier; and/or one field indicating at least one radioresource associated with the at least one preamble. A wireless devicemay transmit to the base station, one or more SRSs associated with theat least one identifier. In an example, the wireless device may startthe first timer in response to transmitting the one or more SRSs. Thewireless device may monitor a downlink control channel during the firsttimer running. The wireless device may stop the first timer in responseto receiving a DCI confirming that the uplink beam management iscompleted successfully. In response to the first timer expiring, thewireless device may transmit to the base station, the at least onepreamble via the at least one radio resource.

According to various embodiments, a device such as, for example, awireless device, off-network wireless device, a base station, and/or thelike, may comprise one or more processors and memory. The memory maystore instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors,cause the device to perform a series of actions. Embodiments of exampleactions are illustrated in the accompanying figures and specification.Features from various embodiments may be combined to create yet mayfurther embodiments.

FIG. 25 is an example flow diagram as per an aspect of an embodiment ofthe present disclosure. At 2510, a wireless device may receive one ormore messages from a base station. The one or more messages may compriseconfiguration parameters of a cell. The configuration parameters maycomprise: first parameters indicating: configuration of soundingreference signals (SRSs) of the cell; whether a first accumulated powercontrol adjustment for the SRSs is enabled; and second parameters. Thesecond parameters may indicate: configuration of an uplink data channelof the cell; and whether a second accumulated power control adjustmentfor the uplink data channel is enabled. At 2520, a first transmissionpower may be determined for the SRSs of the cell based on the firstaccumulated power control adjustment and a first power control command.At 2530, the SRSs may be transmitted, via the cell, with the firsttransmission power. At 2540, a second transmission power may bedetermined for the uplink data channel of the cell based on the secondaccumulated power control adjustment and a second power control command.At 2550, one or more transport blocks may be transmitted with the secondtransmission power, via the uplink data channel of the cell.

According to an example embodiment, the transmission of the SRSs may betriggered by at least one of: receiving a first downlink controlinformation (DCI) indicating transmission of the SRSs triggered for anuplink beam management; and receiving a second DCI indicatingtransmission of the SRSs triggered for a channel state information (CSI)acquisition. According to an example embodiment, the transmission of theSRSs may comprise one of a periodic transmission, an aperiodictransmission, or a semi-persistent transmission. According to an exampleembodiment, the wireless device, in response to the first configurationparameters indicating accumulated power control adjustment for thetransmission of the SRSs is enabled, may determine the firsttransmission power based on a combination of a first power value of anSRS transmission power adjustment state and a second power value. TheSRS transmission power adjustment state may comprise an SRS transmissionpower adjustment state before the wireless device receives the firstpower control command. The second power value may be indicated by thefirst power control command. According to an example embodiment, thewireless device, in response to the first configuration parametersindicating accumulated power control adjustment for the transmission ofthe SRSs being disabled, may determine the first transmission powerbased on a second power value indicated by the first power controlcommand. According to an example embodiment, the wireless device, inresponse to the second configuration parameters indicating accumulatedpower control adjustment for the transmission of the uplink data channelbeing enabled, may determine the second transmission power based on acombination of a first power value of an uplink data channeltransmission power adjustment state and a second power value. The uplinkdata channel transmission power adjustment state may be an uplink datachannel transmission power adjustment state before the wireless devicereceives the second power control command. The second power value may beindicated by the second power control command. According to an exampleembodiment, the wireless device, in response to the second configurationparameters indicating accumulated power control adjustment for thetransmission of the uplink data channel being disabled, may determinethe second transmission power based on a second power value indicated bythe second power control command. According to an example embodiment,the first parameters may may further indicate a first power controladjustment timing value associated with the transmission of the SRSs.According to an example embodiment, the second parameters may mayfurther indicate a second power control adjustment timing valueassociated with the uplink data channel transmission. According to anexample embodiment, the configuration parameters may may furtherindicate an allowed transmission power. According to an exampleembodiment, the first parameters may may further indicate at least oneof: one or more SRS resource sets comprising one or more SRS resources;a first target received power; a first power compensation factor; andone or more first power offset for the transmission of the SRSs.According to an example embodiment, the second parameters may mayfurther indicate at least one of: a second target received power; asecond power compensation factor; and one or more second power offsetfor the uplink data channel transmission. According to an exampleembodiment, the first DCI or the second DCI may comprise at least oneof: resource indication of the SRSs; and the first power controlcommand. According to an example embodiment, the uplink beam managementmay comprise at least one of: receiving the first DCI on the cell at afirst slot; transmitting, via the cell, one or more SRS comprising theSRSs at a second slot; and receiving a command from the base station ata third slot. According to an example embodiment, the CSI acquisitionmay comprise at least one of: receiving the second DCI on the cell at afirst slot; and transmitting, via the cell, one or more SRS comprisingthe SRSs at a second slot. According to an example embodiment, thesemi-persistent transmission of the SRSs may be activated/deactivated bya medium access control control element (MAC CE). The MAC CE may beidentified by a MAC subheader with a logic channel identifier (LCID).According to an example embodiment, the wireless device may determinethe first transmission power of the SRS transmission at a first slotbased on: the first accumulated power control adjustment; and the firstpower control command received at a second slot. The first slot mayoccur at the first power control adjust timing value after the secondslot. According to an example embodiment, the wireless device maydetermine the second transmission power of the uplink data channeltransmission at a first slot based on: the second accumulated powercontrol adjustment; and the second power control command received at asecond slot. The first slot may occur at the second power controladjustment timing value after the second slot. According to an exampleembodiment, the wireless device may determine the first transmissionpower for the SRSs may further based on: the first target receivedpower; the first power compensation factor; at least one of the one ormore first power offset; and a path loss value. According to an exampleembodiment, the wireless device may determine the second transmissionpower for the uplink data channel may further based on: the secondtarget received power; the second power compensation factor; at leastone of the one or more second power offset; and a path loss value.According to an example embodiment, the wireless device may transmit theone or more SRS via one or more transmission beams with the firsttransmission power. According to an example embodiment, the command maycomprise one or more parameters indicating one of the one or more SRSsas a transmission beam of the wireless device.

FIG. 26 is an example flow diagram as per an aspect of an embodiment ofthe present disclosure. At 2610, a wireless device may receive one ormore radio resource control messages from a base station. The one ormore radio resource control messages may comprise first parameters offirst sounding reference signals (SRSs) of a beam management; secondparameters of second SRSs of a channel state information acquisition;and a total allowable power value. At 2620, at least a first SRS of thefirst SRSs may be transmitted. At 2630, a transmission power of at leasta second SRS of the second SRSs may be adjusted in response to: atransmission of the at least second SRS overlapping in time with thetransmission of the at least first SRS; and a total transmission powerexceeding the total allowable power value. At 2640, the at least secondSRS may be transmitted with the adjusted transmission power.

According to an example embodiment, the configuration parameters mayfurther comprise parameters of a plurality of cells comprising a firstcell and a second cell. According to an example embodiment, theconfiguration parameters may further indicate a plurality of cellsgrouped into one or more cell groups. A first cell group of the one ormore cell groups may comprise a first cell. A second cell group of theone or more cell groups may comprise a second cell. According to anexample embodiment, the first parameters may comprise SRS resourceconfiguration parameters. The first parameters may compriseQuasi-Co-Location (QCL) indication parameters. The first parameters maycomprise beam sweeping parameters. The first parameters may comprise SRSpower setting parameters.

According to an example embodiment, the uplink beam management may betriggered by a first downlink control information (DCI) transmitted viaa downlink control channel. According to an example embodiment, theuplink beam management may be triggered by a medium access controlcontrol element (MAC CE).

According to an example embodiment, the at least first SRS may be aperiodic SRS or a semi-persistent SRS. According to an exampleembodiment, the total transmission power may comprise a firsttransmission power of a first transmission of the at least first SRS anda second transmission power of a second transmission of the at leastsecond SRS. According to an example embodiment, the wireless device mayadjust the transmission power of the at least second SRS such that thetotal transmission power does not exceed the total allowable powervalue. According to an example embodiment, the first cell may be aprimary cell. According to an example embodiment, the first cell may bea secondary cell. According to an example embodiment, the first cell maybe a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) secondary cell.

According to an example embodiment, the second cell may be a primarycell. According to an example embodiment, the second cell may be asecondary cell. According to an example embodiment, the second cell maybe a PUCCH secondary cell.

According to an example embodiment, the wireless device may transmit theat least first SRS and the at least second SRS via the first cell.According to an example embodiment, the wireless device may transmit theat least first SRS via the first cell. According to an exampleembodiment, the wireless device may transmit the at least second SRS viathe second cell.

According to an example embodiment, the first cell may be a primary cellof the first cell group and/or the second cell may be a primarysecondary cell of the second cell group. According to an exampleembodiment, the first cell may be a primary cell of the first cell groupand/or the second cell may be a PUCCH secondary cell of the second cellgroup. According to an example embodiment, the first cell may be aprimary cell of the first cell group and/or the second cell may be asecondary cell of the second cell group. According to an exampleembodiment, the wireless device may transmit the at least first SRS andthe at least second SRS via the first cell.

According to an example embodiment, the wireless device may transmit theat least first SRS via the first cell. According to an exampleembodiment, the wireless device may transmit the at least second SRS viathe second cell.

According to an example embodiment, the wireless device may transmit theat least first SRS with a first transmission power. The firsttransmission power may be determined based on the SRS power settingparameters the SRS power setting parameters. The first transmissionpower may be determined based on an SRS power control command indicatedby a DCI. The first transmission power may be determined based on theSRS power setting parameters the SRS power setting parameters and an SRSpower control command indicated by a DCI.

According to an example embodiment, the MAC CE may indicate an SRSresource indicator associated with the at least first SRS. According toan example embodiment, the first DCI may indicate an SRS resourceindicator associated with the at least one first SRS. According to anexample embodiment, the first DCI may indicate a first SRS power controlcommand.

FIG. 27 is an example flow diagram as per an aspect of an embodiment ofthe present disclosure. At 2710, a wireless device may receive one ormore radio resource control messages from a base station. The one ormore radio resource control messages may comprise first configurationparameters of a plurality of cells comprising a first cell and a secondcell; and second configuration parameters of first sounding referencesignals (SRSs) of a beam management for the first cell. At 2720 at leasta first SRS of the first SRSs may be transmitted via the first cell. At2730, a configured/scheduled transmission of a second signal may bedropped in response to: the configured/scheduled transmission of thesecond signal via the second cell overlapping in time with thetransmission of the at least first SRS; and a total transmission powerexceeding a first total allowable power value.

According to an example embodiment, the first configuration parametersmay comprise SRS resource configuration parameters. According to anexample embodiment, the first configuration parameters may comprise QCLindication parameters. According to an example embodiment, the firstconfiguration parameters may comprise beam sweeping parameters.According to an example embodiment, the first configuration parametersmay comprise SRS power setting parameters.

According to an example embodiment, the uplink beam management may betriggered by a first downlink control information (DCI) transmitted viaa downlink control channel. According to an example embodiment, theuplink beam management may be triggered by a medium access controlcontrol element (MAC CE).

According to an example embodiment, the at least first SRS may be aperiodic SRS According to an example embodiment, the at least first SRSmay be a semi-persistent SRS. According to an example embodiment, thetotal transmission power may comprise a first transmission power of afirst transmission of the at least first SRS and a second transmissionpower of a second transmission of the second signal. According to anexample embodiment, the second signal may comprise at least one of: asecond SRS for CSI acquisition; or a PRACH preamble. According to anexample embodiment, the wireless device may transmit the at least firstSRS with a first transmission power. The first transmission power may bedetermined based on the SRS power setting parameters. The firsttransmission power may be determined based on an SRS power controlcommand indicated by a DCI. According to an example embodiment, theconfigured/scheduled transmission of the second signal may be triggeredby a DCI. According to an example embodiment, the configured/scheduledtransmission of the second signal may be triggered by a MAC CE.According to an example embodiment, the configured/scheduledtransmission of the second signal may be triggered by an RRC message.

FIG. 28 is an example flow diagram as per an aspect of an embodiment ofthe present disclosure. At 2810, a wireless device may receive one ormore radio resource control messages from a base station. The one ormore radio resource control messages may comprise first configurationparameters of a plurality of cells comprising a first cell and a secondcell; and second configuration parameters of first sounding referencesignals (SRSs) of a beam management for the first cell. At 2820 at leasta first SRS of the first SRSs may be transmitted via the first cell. At2830, a transmission power of a configured/scheduled transmission of asecond signal may be adjusting, in response to: the configured/scheduledtransmission of the second signal via the second cell overlapping intime with the transmission of the at least one SRS; and a totaltransmission power exceeding a first total allowable power value. At2840, the second signal may be transmitted via the second cell with theadjusted transmission power.

According to an example embodiment, the first configuration parametersmay comprise SRS resource configuration parameters. According to anexample embodiment, the first configuration parameters may comprise QCLindication parameters. According to an example embodiment, the firstconfiguration parameters may comprise beam sweeping parameters.According to an example embodiment, the first configuration parametersmay comprise SRS power setting parameters. According to an exampleembodiment, the uplink beam management may be triggered by a firstdownlink control information (DCI) transmitted via a downlink controlchannel. According to an example embodiment, the uplink beam managementmay be triggered by a medium access control control element (MAC CE).According to an example embodiment, the at least first SRS may be aperiodic SRS. According to an example embodiment, the at least first SRSmay be a semi-persistent SRS. According to an example embodiment, thetotal transmission power may comprise a first transmission power of afirst transmission of the at least first SRS and a second transmissionpower of a second transmission of the second signal.

According to an example embodiment, the second signal may comprise asecond SRS for CSI acquisition. According to an example embodiment, thesecond signal may comprise a PRACH preamble. According to an exampleembodiment, the wireless device may transmit the at least first SRS witha first transmission power. The first transmission power may bedetermined based on the SRS power setting parameters. The firsttransmission power may be determined based on an SRS power controlcommand indicated by a DCI. According to an example embodiment, theconfigured/scheduled transmission of the second signal may be triggeredby a DCI. According to an example embodiment, the configured/scheduledtransmission of the second signal may be triggered by a MAC CE.According to an example embodiment, the configured/scheduledtransmission of the second signal may be triggered by an RRC message.According to an example embodiment, the wireless device may adjust thetransmission power of the second signal such that the total transmissionpower does not exceed the total allowable power value. According to anexample embodiment, the adjusting the transmission power of the secondsignal may comprise reducing the transmission power of the second signalsuch that the total transmission power does not exceed the totalallowable power value.

FIG. 29 is an example flow diagram as per an aspect of an embodiment ofthe present disclosure. At 2910, a wireless device may receive one ormore messages from a base station. The one or more messages may comprisefirst parameters of first sounding reference signal (SRS) resources;second parameters of second uplink resources; and a first timer valuefor a first timer. At 2920, a first downlink control information (DCI)may be received. The first DCI may indicate transmission of at least oneSRS for the uplink beam management procedure. At 2930, the at least oneSRS may be transmitted via at least one of the first SRS resources. At2940, in response to the transmitting: the first timer may be startedbased on the first timer value; and a downlink control channel may bemonitored for a second DCI. At 2950, at least a second uplink signal maybe transmitted via at least one of the second uplink resources inresponse to not detecting the second DCI during the monitoring.

According to an example embodiment, the wireless device may further, inresponse to detecting the second DCI during the monitoring: stop thefirst timer. The wireless device may further, in response to detectingthe second DCI during the monitoring, complete the uplink beammanagement procedure successfully. According to an example embodiment,the second uplink resources may comprise second SRSs. According to anexample embodiment, the second uplink resources may comprise one or moredemodulation RSs (DM-RSs). According to an example embodiment, thesecond uplink resources may comprise one or more preambles associatedwith one or more RACH resources. According to an example embodiment, thesecond parameters may indicate one or more RACH resources. Each of theone or more RACH resources may be associated with a preamble index. Eachof the one or more RACH resources may be associated with a PRACHnumerology. Each of the one or more RACH resources may be associatedwith a time and/or frequency radio resource allocation. Each of the oneor more RACH resources may be associated with power setting of thepreamble transmission. According to an example embodiment, the first DCImay comprise an RS resource identifier indicating one of the first SRSresources. According to an example embodiment, the first DCI maycomprise a preamble index.

According to an example embodiment, the first DCI may compriseconfiguration parameters of the second DCI. The configuration parametersof the second DCI may comprise a time window with a time valueindicating when the second DCI will be present. The configurationparameters of the second DCI may comprise a DCI format indication of thesecond DCI. The configuration parameters of the second DCI may comprisean aggregation level of the second DCI. The configuration parameters ofthe second DCI may comprise a control resource set associated with thesecond DCI. The configuration parameters of the second DCI may comprisea search space associated with the second DCI. The configurationparameters of the second DCI may comprise a quasi-co-location (QCL)indication for receiving the second DCI. According to an exampleembodiment, the at least second uplink signal may comprise a preamble.According to an example embodiment, the at least second uplink signalmay comprise a signal via a physical uplink shared control channel(PUCCH). According to an example embodiment, the wireless device maymonitor the downlink control channel for the second DCI during at leasta portion of when the first timer may be running. According to anexample embodiment, the first parameters comprise one or more radioresource configuration parameters of the first SRS resources. Accordingto an example embodiment, the first parameters comprise power settingparameters of the first SRS resources. According to an exampleembodiment, the completing the uplink beam management proceduresuccessfully may comprise adjusting transmission beams according to oneor more fields of the second DCI. According to an example embodiment,the at least one uplink signal may be a preamble selected from the oneor more preambles. According to an example embodiment, the at least oneuplink signal may be a preamble of the one or more preambles indicatedin the first DCI. According to an example embodiment, the at least oneuplink signal may be a SRS of the second SRSs indicated in the firstDCI. According to an example embodiment, the at least one uplink signalmay be a DM-RS of the DR-RSs indicated in the first DCI. According to anexample embodiment, the wireless device may transmit the at least oneuplink signal comprising a preamble associated with one of the one ormore RACH resources. According to an example embodiment, the wirelessdevice may transmit the preamble according to: the PRACH numerologyassociated with the preamble; the time and/or frequency radio resourceallocation associated with the preamble; and the power setting of thepreamble transmission associated with the preamble. According to anexample embodiment, the wireless device may monitor the PDCCH for thesecond DCI, according to the time window. According to an exampleembodiment, the wireless device may monitor the PDCCH for the secondDCI, according to the DCI format indication. According to an exampleembodiment, the wireless device may monitor the PDCCH for the secondDCI, according to the aggregation level. According to an exampleembodiment, the wireless device may monitor the PDCCH for the secondDCI, according to the control resource set. According to an exampleembodiment, the wireless device may monitor the PDCCH for the secondDCI, according to the search space. According to an example embodiment,the wireless device may monitor the PDCCH for the second DCI, accordingto the QCL indication. According to an example embodiment, the wirelessdevice may further transmit the at least second uplink signal on a PUCCHor a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in response to receiving thesecond DCI. According to an example embodiment, a PUCCH resource fortransmission of the at least second signal may be indicated in the firstDCI. According to an example embodiment, a PUCCH resource fortransmission of the at least second signal may be indicated in the oneor more RRC messages.

FIG. 30 is an example flow diagram as per an aspect of an embodiment ofthe present disclosure. At 3010, a wireless device may receive one ormore radio resource control messages from a base station. The one ormore radio resource control messages may comprise configurationparameters of an uplink beam management procedure. The configurationparameters may indicate: reference signal (RS) resources; and a firsttimer value for a first timer. At 3020, a first downlink controlinformation (DCI) may be received. The first DCI may comprise: a RSindex identifying a first RS of the RS resources; and an indicatorindicating whether a second DCI is present or not. At 3030, the first RSmay be transmitted in response to receiving the first DCI. At 3040, inresponse to the indicator of the first DCI indicating that the secondDCI is present: the first timer based may be started on the first timervalue; and the PDCCH may be monitored for the second DCI. At 3050, theuplink beam management procedure may be completed in response to thesecond DCI.

According to an example embodiment, the wireless device may not monitorthe PDCCH for the second DCI and not start the first timer in responseto the indicator indicating that the second DCI is absent. According toan example embodiment, completing the uplink beam management proceduremay comprise adjusting transmission beams according to one or morefields of the second DCI. According to an example embodiment, the RSresources may comprise at least one of: sounding reference signals(SRSs); one or more demodulation RSs (DM-RSs); and one or more preamblesassociated with one or more RACH resources. According to an exampleembodiment, in response to detecting the second DCI during themonitoring: the first timer may be stopped; and the uplink beammanagement procedure may be completed successfully. According to anexample embodiment, in response to not detecting the second DCI duringthe monitoring: the first timer may be stopped; and at least a secondsignal may be transmitted. According to an example embodiment, the atleast second signal may comprise at least one of: second SRSs; one ormore second DM-RSs; and one or more second preambles.

In this disclosure, “a” and “an” and similar phrases are to beinterpreted as “at least one” or “one or more.” Similarly, any term thatends with the suffix “(s)” is to be interpreted as “at least one” or“one or more.” In this disclosure, the term “may” is to be interpretedas “may, for example.” In other words, the term “may” is indicative thatthe phrase following the term “may” is an example of one of a multitudeof suitable possibilities that may, or may not, be employed to one ormore of the various embodiments. If A and B are sets and every elementof A is also an element of B, A is called a subset of B. In thisspecification, only non-empty sets and subsets are considered. Forexample, possible subsets of B={cell1, cell2} are: {cell1}, {cell2}, and{cell1, cell2}. The phrase “based on” is indicative that the phrasefollowing the term “based on” is an example of one of a multitude ofsuitable possibilities that may, or may not, be employed to one or moreof the various embodiments. The phrase “in response to” is indicativethat the phrase following the phrase “in response to” is an example ofone of a multitude of suitable possibilities that may, or may not, beemployed to one or more of the various embodiments. The terms“including” and “comprising” should be interpreted as meaning“including, but not limited to”.

In this disclosure, various embodiments are disclosed. Limitations,features, and/or elements from the disclosed example embodiments may becombined to create further embodiments within the scope of thedisclosure.

In this disclosure, parameters (Information elements: IEs) may compriseone or more objects, and each of those objects may comprise one or moreother objects. For example, if parameter (IE) N comprises parameter (IE)M, and parameter (IE) M comprises parameter (IE) K, and parameter (IE) Kcomprises parameter (information element) J, then, for example, Ncomprises K, and N comprises J. In an example embodiment, when one ormore messages comprise a plurality of parameters, it implies that aparameter in the plurality of parameters is in at least one of the oneor more messages, but does not have to be in each of the one or moremessages.

Furthermore, many features presented above are described as beingoptional through the use of “may” or the use of parentheses. For thesake of brevity and legibility, the present disclosure does notexplicitly recite each and every permutation that may be obtained bychoosing from the set of optional features. However, the presentdisclosure is to be interpreted as explicitly disclosing all suchpermutations. For example, a system described as having three optionalfeatures may be embodied in seven different ways, namely with just oneof the three possible features, with any two of the three possiblefeatures or with all three of the three possible features.

Many of the elements described in the disclosed embodiments may beimplemented as modules. A module is defined here as an isolatableelement that performs a defined function and has a defined interface toother elements. The modules described in this disclosure may beimplemented in hardware, software in combination with hardware,firmware, wetware (i.e. hardware with a biological element) or acombination thereof, all of which are behaviorally equivalent. Forexample, modules may be implemented as a software routine written in acomputer language configured to be executed by a hardware machine (suchas C, C++, Fortran, Java, Basic, Matlab or the like) or amodeling/simulation program such as Simulink, Stateflow, GNU Octave, orLabVIEWMathScript. Additionally, it may be possible to implement modulesusing physical hardware that incorporates discrete or programmableanalog, digital and/or quantum hardware. Examples of programmablehardware comprise: computers, microcontrollers, microprocessors,application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs); field programmablegate arrays (FPGAs); and complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs).Computers, microcontrollers and microprocessors are programmed usinglanguages such as assembly, C, C++ or the like. FPGAs, ASICs and CPLDsare often programmed using hardware description languages (HDL) such asVHSIC hardware description language (VHDL) or Verilog that configureconnections between internal hardware modules with lesser functionalityon a programmable device. Finally, it needs to be emphasized that theabove mentioned technologies are often used in combination to achievethe result of a functional module.

The disclosure of this patent document incorporates material which issubject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection tothe facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or thepatent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Officepatent file or records, for the limited purposes required by law, butotherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever.

While various embodiments have been described above, it should beunderstood that they have been presented by way of example, and notlimitation. It will be apparent to persons skilled in the relevantart(s) that various changes in form and detail can be made thereinwithout departing from the scope. In fact, after reading the abovedescription, it will be apparent to one skilled in the relevant art(s)how to implement alternative embodiments. Thus, the present embodimentsshould not be limited by any of the above described exemplaryembodiments.

In addition, it should be understood that any figures which highlightthe functionality and advantages, are presented for example purposesonly. The disclosed architecture is sufficiently flexible andconfigurable, such that it may be utilized in ways other than thatshown. For example, the actions listed in any flowchart may bere-ordered or only optionally used in some embodiments.

Further, the purpose of the Abstract of the Disclosure is to enable theU.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, andespecially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art whoare not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determinequickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of thetechnical disclosure of the application. The Abstract of the Disclosureis not intended to be limiting as to the scope in any way.

Finally, it is the applicant's intent that only claims that include theexpress language “means for” or “step for” be interpreted under 35U.S.C. 112. Claims that do not expressly include the phrase “means for”or “step for” are not to be interpreted under 35 U.S.C. 112.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a wirelessdevice from a base station, one or more messages comprisingconfiguration parameters of an uplink beam management procedure, theconfiguration parameters comprising: first parameters of first soundingreference signal (SRS) resources; second parameters of second uplinkresources; and a first timer value for a first timer; receiving a firstdownlink control information (DCI), the first DCI indicatingtransmission of at least one SRS for the uplink beam managementprocedure; transmitting the at least one SRS via at least one of thefirst SRS resources; in response to the transmitting: starting the firsttimer based on the first timer value; and monitoring a downlink controlchannel for a second DCI; and transmitting at least a second uplinksignal via at least one of the second uplink resources in response tonot detecting the second DCI during the monitoring.
 2. The method ofclaim 1, further comprising: in response to detecting the second DCIduring the monitoring, stopping the first timer; and completing theuplink beam management procedure successfully.
 3. The method of claim 2,wherein completing the uplink beam management procedure successfullycomprises adjusting transmission beams according to one or more fieldsof the second DCI.
 4. The method of claim 1, wherein the second uplinkresources comprise at least one of: second SRSs; one or moredemodulation RS s (DM-RS s); and one or more preambles associated withone or more random access channel (RACH) resources.
 5. The method ofclaim 4, wherein the second uplink signal is a preamble selected fromthe one or more preambles.
 6. The method of claim 4, wherein the seconduplink signal is a preamble of the one or more preambles indicated inthe first DCI.
 7. The method of claim 4, wherein the second uplinksignal is a SRS of the second SRSs indicated in the first DCI.
 8. Themethod of claim 4, wherein the second uplink signal is a DM-RS of theDM-RS s indicated in the first DCI.
 9. The method of claim 1, whereinthe second parameters indicate one or more random access channel (RACH)resources, each of the one or more RACH resources being associated withat least one of: a preamble index; a physical random access channel(PRACH) numerology; a time and/or frequency radio resource allocation;and power setting of a preamble transmission.
 10. The method of claim 9,wherein the wireless device transmits the second uplink signalcomprising a preamble associated with one of the one or more RACHresources.
 11. The method of claim 9, wherein the wireless devicetransmits the preamble according to: the PRACH numerology associatedwith the preamble; the time and/or frequency radio resource allocationassociated with the preamble; and the power setting of the preambletransmission associated with the preamble.
 12. The method of claim 1,wherein the first DCI comprises at least one of: an RS resourceidentifier indicating one of the first SRS resources; and a preambleindex.
 13. The method of claim 1, wherein the first DCI comprisesconfiguration parameters of the second DCI, wherein the configurationparameters of the second DCI comprise at least one of: a time windowwith a time value indicating when the second DCI will be present; a DCIformat indication of the second DCI; an aggregation level of the secondDCI; a control resource set associated with the second DCI; a searchspace associated with the second DCI; and a quasi-co-location (QCL)indication for receiving the second DCI.
 14. The method of claim 13,wherein the wireless device monitors a physical downlink control channel(PDCCH) for the second DCI, according to at least one of: the timewindow; the DCI format indication; the aggregation level; the controlresource set; the search space; and the QCL indication.
 15. The methodof claim 13, further comprising transmitting the at least second uplinksignal on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) or a physical uplinkshared channel (PUSCH) in response to receiving the second DCI.
 16. Themethod of claim 1, wherein the second uplink signal comprises at leastone of: a preamble; and a signal for transmission via a physical uplinkshared control channel (PUCCH).
 17. The method of claim 16, wherein aPUCCH resource for transmission of the second signal is indicated in thefirst DCI.
 18. The method of claim 16, wherein a PUCCH resource fortransmission of the second signal is indicated in the one or moremessages.
 19. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless devicemonitors the downlink control channel for the second DCI during at leasta portion of when the first timer is running.
 20. The method of claim 1,wherein the first parameters comprise at least one of: one or more radioresource configuration parameters of the first SRS resources; and powersetting parameters of the first SRS resources.